Ad - Wednesday, August 1, 1984 - North Shore News get the camera. After all, if everybody's having a good time, you’d better snap a pic, eh? Just like they tell you to do in the ads. So out comes the camera. Now | don’t know how many other families out there suffer from the same disease, but at our place there has been an epidemic of cameraholism for as long as | can remember. Hey, [’m just as badly afflicted as the rest! If something good starts happening, you can be sure somebody will reach for the Camera tO immortahze the moment, just incidentally ruining tt in the process. What happened the other night the moment Mommy brought out the camera? First of all, despite having had some excellent photo- graphs published, my wife has a candid camera techni- que that leaves much to be desired “Smile!’’ she yells. And then, when we all freeze into these absurd poses with big grins painfully screwed up in- to our foreheads, she takes an unbearably long time get- ting the scene into focus. Do you know somebody like this? By this time, of course, | am a= seething vortex of repressed invective. It would “KERRISDALE KUTIE” Cozy @ bedroom dollhouse Strictly personal by Bob Hunter ne of those family scenes was happening the other night — Daddy dancing with the kids sort of thing — when Mommy decided to all pour out in a spurt of ver- bal abuse except, well, gee, the kids are here and we’re all having such a good time, aren’t we? Result? | go for a drink. The five-year-old turns into a Hollywood kid auditioning for a part. My. oldest daughter goes into her Vogue cover routine. And I see the baby watching all this. Probably the first thing she'll learn abgut society 1S that when the camera aims at you, slobber cutely It's not just my wife, you understand. My mother does it. My mother-in-law does tt Some of my aunts and uncles doit Cousins, too. We're all victims of the Kodak syndrome. Ot course, it was originally the Wedgwood syndrome — making photographic copies of paintings on glass. Then it was the Daguerreotype syn- drome, based on lithographic printing plates. Along came the box camera, and with it the Brownie syndrome. Followed by Kodak. And now, it seems, we are enter- ing the Fuji era. God help us. I'm talking about the madness of having to take pictures of everthing. Why do we do it? Almost everybody | know has at least sixteen telephone directory- sized family albums by now. Only an anthropologist would really enjoy going through all of them. It goes back quite a ways, this phenomenon. | have albums inherited from my grandfather, who has pic- tures in there of his grand- parents. It’s quite wonderful, of course, to be able to look back five generations into the past. European IN B.C Gas, > Gorgeous style channe cabinets with rounded corners - in laminate or oak facing are NOW AVAILABLE AT SPECIAL INTRODUC- TORY PRICES. No import duty or shipping costs ‘cause they are made d value - good price Jee wens it THAT'S OUR GUARANTEE! But does that justify shooting off three rolls every tume we have a family picnic? Or another three or four rolls at Christmas? Or every time somebody has a birthday. 1 mean, there are hundreds of birthdays every year! I think what has happened is that the camera brings out the ancestor-worshipper in us all. Look, look Grandpa Louts had YOUR cheekbones! But it also panders like a virtual narcotic to everybody’s marcissism. Looking at photos of oneself is a variation on the old joke: What’s the one name everybody in the world remembers? Answer: Their own! kitchen / MPI 225 East Ist Street (NRS NATIONAL REAL ESTATE SERVICE NATED In ancient umes, you had to get a coin cast in your own image to achieve immortali- ty. Now? Chick! You’re 1m- mortal. When the Martians land 10,000 years from now, it might just be YOUR pic- ture they find in the ruins. Add to all these factors the mystical point that a photo- graph of oneself gives you the equivalent of an out-of-body experience. Scenery. | can see taking pictures of scenery. And cathedrals. And _= secret documents. But this modern mania for documentation of every little happy moment is making the world a phonier place. | see so many kids who instantly go into their best pose the moment a camera is hoisted that I fear for spontaneity in the future. It’s worse than McLuhan feared. 1f | may add a new truth, everybody is in the media. Help! . Earn 40% per year Stripped bonds & coupons Guaranteed by Government of Canada for up to 20 years Suitable for Seif Directed RRSP's New tssue now available Call: Matt Phillips /.LEVESQUE. BEAUBIEN INC. 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