{"id":18907,"date":"2020-11-20T04:03:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T08:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=18907"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T06:29:09","slug":"dont-take-your-camera-to-town-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dont-take-your-camera-to-town-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t take your camera to town, son"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18908\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wreck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18908\" class=\"wp-image-18908 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/wreck-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18908\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo of a car wreck in the 1930s or 40s<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Once photography took off and became simple for everyone to use (roll film and drug store processing) it became a means to record assets and asset losses amongst other purposes.<\/p>\n<p>When automobile accidents became epidemic, Insurance companies demanded proof of loss. Perhaps the photographic print of the damaged vehicle served as this proof (when I was a kid, people said a picture was worth a 1,000 words and no one thought a photo could be faked).<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, there are assessment centres to determine damages for Insurance companies, leaving stills and videos to families and TV stations.<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title of this post is a riff on the Johnny Cash ballad, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VTAZ7xzZKAw\">Don&#8217;t Take Your Guns to Town<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Once photography took off and became simple for everyone to use (roll film and drug store processing) it became a means to record assets and asset losses amongst other purposes. When automobile accidents became epidemic, Insurance companies demanded proof &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/dont-take-your-camera-to-town-boy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[2735,3410,220,1942,3409],"class_list":["post-18907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-automobile","tag-insurance","tag-photos","tag-print","tag-wreck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18913,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18907\/revisions\/18913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}