Photos should be objects

At least that's what I think.  Once you've printed it it has a gravitas that a digital image with all its ephemerality doesn't.  

This is one of my favourite articles in a very long time:

http://www.boston.com/community/photos/raw/2009/01/the_twilight_of_the_color_phot.html#/1

I like my shoeboxes.