How do photographs change with time to become a piece of social history?

Tim Walker's collection of wonderland/fairytale style images from his book 'Pictures', is a collection that I find truly astounding and breathtaking, the images portray such innocence and exuberance, his work is filled with youthful imagination and completely impossible non manipulated images, that i find truely inspirational and thought prevoking. Walker's interest in photography began while on work experience at Conde Nast Publications where he then also graduated from Exeter College, Devon, England in 1994, he then worked in London as a freelance photography assistant before moving to New York to work as assistant to photographer Richard Avedon. Tim’s photographs are reminiscent of an era of innocence and exuberance; youthful imagination and a uniquely British aesthetic. 

The above image is titled 'The Dress/Lamp Tree' - shot at Eglingham Hall, Northumberland, England in 2002, Walker quotes "There was a vintage clothes shop in Bath and they used to hang ball dresses from the ceiling because they were so big, in the winter the lights would glow through them" this appears to be what gave Walker the idea for this photograph. Janine Trott, the set designer, had to make corsets out of wire and stich tiny lops into each dress, twelve times, so that it hung like a lampshade. This took two days. Walker then had to hope for a still night at Eglingham so that it was perfectly calm, because if the dresses had moved they would of been like ghosts on the film.

This image even though it was only taken 9 years ago is already a piece of social history, this image as been published in many well known magazines such as Vogue, this image is also the reason why hundreds of people around the world have after viewing this image then decided to pick up a camera and experiment with more impossible, youthful, and imaginative imagery such as fashion photographer Lara Jade who is known for her beautifuly haunting an manipulated imagery.