How Millennial Parents Are Reinventing the Cherished Family Photo Album
On the top shelf of closets, in dusty basements, and tucked away in chests across the country sit shoeboxes and stacks of albums filled with photos. The images, perhaps slightly curled and yellowed, usually chronicle all the big moments of childhood: births, first days of school, gap-toothed elementary-school smiles, and high-school graduations. For decades, the photo-stuffed shoebox has been a household staple.
But unlike when some of these musty photos were snapped, parents today might take a dozen photos of their kids even before noon, posting the best ones to Instagram and texting them to the grandparents before trashing the blurry, less-than-ideal shots.
Kodak once touted 2000 as a landmark year, when the number of photos taken worldwide first eclipsed Fast forward to 2017, when just about everyone has a cellphone camera in their back pocket, and
