Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography Podcast
1) Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography and the Phases of Digitisation
Nina Lager Vestberg (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) discusses the digital condition of photography through a phase model of digitisation. What do we talk about when we talk about digi...Show More
Photo Archives VI: The Place of Photography and the Phases of Digitisation
20:02 | May 9th, 2017
2) Photo Archives VI: Archive, Exhibition, Book: 'The Family of Man' Reconstituted
Shamoon Zamir (New York University Abu Dhabi) discusses the 'The Family of Man' exhibition and its related archives. Apart from early reviewers and commentators, everyone who has written on the famous...Show More
Photo Archives VI: Archive, Exhibition, Book: 'The Family of Man' Reconstituted
26:25 | May 9th, 2017
3) Photo Archives VI: Archiving Royal Heirlooms: The publication of the Crown treasures of the Galerie d'Apollon (Louvre) and its materiality
Pascal Griener (University of Neuchatel) discusses photographic reproductions of the French crown jewels made for their auction in 1887. During the second half of the nineteenth century, the royal hei...Show More
4) Photo Archives VI: From Trash to Treasure: Loss, Value, and the Photo Archive
Catherine E. Clark (MIT) discusses the life cycle of anonymous photographic archives. This paper examines the trope of ‘trash to treasure’ in the history of photo archives. This paper’s key example is...Show More
Photo Archives VI: From Trash to Treasure: Loss, Value, and the Photo Archive
23:49 | May 9th, 2017
5) Photo Archives VI: Saving Space, Mediating Place: Photography and the Reproduction of Collections and Archives
Estelle Blaschke (University of Lausanne) discusses the development and growth in use of microfilm during the 1920s and 1930s. The use of photography as a copying machine in libraries and museums star...Show More
6) Photo Archives VI: Photography as Protocol
Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University) discusses photography as a scientific protocol This talk examines the idea that photography has entered into the protocols of archive practice, informing and per...Show More
7) Photo Archives VI: The Laboratory as Photo Archive
Chitra Ramalingam (Yale University) discusses photographic collections within science laboratories Experimental practice in laboratories sometimes generates vast quantities of visual records. Such sit...Show More
8) Photo Archives VI: Vision in Doubt: Arctic Photography, Victorian Geology, and its Anglo-American Debates
Luke Gartlan (University of St Andrews) discusses Victorian arctic photography in The Arctic Regions (1873) and an unpublished album. William Bradford's The Arctic Regions has often been cited as an e...Show More
9) Photo Archives VI: Sticking points: Photographic albums and the forgetful archives of Egyptian archaeology
Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia) discusses the 'forgetfulness' of photo albums from excavations in colonial and interwar Egypt. Almost every archive associated with fieldwork from archaeolo...Show More
10) Photo Archives VI: The Relational Album: Photographic Networks, Anthropology, and the Learned Society
Christopher Morton (University of Oxford) discusses the concept of the relational museum applied to an album from the Anthropological Society in London. This paper takes the notion of the ‘relational ...Show More