[Personal_archives] Tuesday morning

[Francois Cartier]

Hello Martha and fellow colleagues,

This discussion is of particular interest to me. As I work in an 
archives within an museum, archives are more likely to be seen not just 
as source of (legal, administrative or historical) information, but also 
as objects with their own lives and intrinsic value. This subject is 
starting to receive more and more attention from archivists and other 
professionals dealing with information management. Archives are also 
objetcs which have a function in people"s lives, just as a fork or a 
table. Damage, or deterioration of a document, such as a photograph, can 
be seen as just another stage in the life of a document.

I hope I can contribute later on.

Sincerely,



Martha Langford a écrit :
> 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
>
>
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