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数月前从报纸上读到百年柯达破产的消息,令人不禁唏嘘。1912年3月,英国探险家罗伯特·斯科特[Robert Scott]和他的队友在南极不幸遇难,和他们一起埋在冰雪里长达八个月之久的还有几卷柯达胶片。这胶片历经坚冰,依然清晰地记录着他们最后的所见。一百年以后,柯达破产。柯达记录了美国和国际上几代中产阶级的人生,养育了摄影的艺术和产业,进而将摄影送上几乎取代文字的时代图像文化的高位。今天,人们将柯达破产的原因归于柯达在上世纪七八十年代的保守的经营路线。我觉得,正如意大利导演贝尔纳多·贝托鲁奇[Bernardo Bertolucci]所言:个人是历史的人质。不仅个人将被他所处的时代绑架,
A few months ago from the newspaper read a hundred years Kodak bankruptcy news, can not help but sigh. In March 1912, British explorer Robert Scott and his teammates were killed in Antarctica, and a few volumes of Kodak film were buried with them in the ice and snow for eight months. The film has been frozen, still clearly record the last thing they saw. One hundred years later, Kodak went bankrupt. Kodak documents the lives of several generations of middle-class Americans and internationals, nurtures the art and industry of photography, and sends photography to the top of an image culture that has almost replaced text. Today, the reason Kodak went bankrupt is attributed to Kodak’s conservative management of the seventies and eighties of the last century. I think, as the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci put it: Individuals are the hostages of history. Not only will individuals be kidnapped by the time he is in,