Versatile Family Album

I collect other people's family photos. I like seeing the way people grow, act and change through a photo album. I like the saturated tones and the rounded yellowed corners. I find, especially in older eras, generic patterns forming in the staging of photos. There's always someone holding the baby, at a wedding, the family at christmas, arranged on the couch; and then there's the holiday snaps; posed in front of a monument, on the beach, in the snow. I find it quite heartwarming that you can observe similarities between your family and a complete strangers, and yet quite ridiculous that these generic set ups can apply to any family. Until fairly recently, cameras were considered a luxury and only brought out to capture the special moments, like weddings, family holidays and so on, thus the family album becomes somewhat of a constructed reality, representing specific events, only half of the story.

I guess this is the first concept that sprung to mind with Andy Warhol's quote: Isn't life just a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
and although, "life" is much more than just a family photo album, I think an album tries to record and depict family life. And the images in any album certainly change, and tend to repeat themselves through the life cycle of each generation.