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That tension is central to modern archival practices. Digital collections promise exhaustive indexing; they turn lived spaces into metadata, searchable and sharable. But in doing so they abstract immediacy into thumbnail, timestamp, and tag. The richness of street life—gesture, tone, smell, the way light moves across a plastered wall—evaporates into records that are both more available and more detached.