[Personal_archives] Tuesday morning

[Martha Langford]

Hello everyone,

I'd like to pick up on Alison's questions about materiality and place.

Could we talk, at least briefly, about the photographic image found on 
line.  Are photographic archivists seeing a general loss of interest in 
the original material form of the object? And if so, does that sever the 
link to use in time and place that Alison is raising?

Here at Concordia, a number of us are spending the fall trying to answer 
the question: What Do We Owe the Object? Digitizing the photograph 
disseminates an image with gains and losses. One recurring puzzle: the 
digitized image can be inspected in ways that it never was in its 
original context. Is this a gain or a loss?

Off to school.

Martha