Provenance is a craft too — Apple just stamped the photo leather

There's something oddly comforting about a negative, a press mark, a signature — marks that say 'this thing was touched by hands and lenses at a real moment.' AI's got us all second-guessing what's real, and yeah, maybe a digital seal is just another kind of watermark. But as a guy who's spent decades judging leather by its grain, I'll take any honest stamp over a world where everything could be a copy of a copy. Now if only my block stamp could prove my bindings weren't produced by a robot churning out perfect spines.