[Personal_archives] Tuesday morning

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Hi Everyone,

Since our focus is on individuals:  how might the lack of a physical
image change perceptions of a photograph's importance?  Does the
proliferation of images, our ability to alter them, to send them out, to
create multiple copies, our inability to stablize them (or even to find
them again) show that we are now "taking photography lightly" in our
personal lives?  Or are we now dealing with more fluid notions of
digital property along with more transient notions of identity and
selfhood?  To me this keys into broader interests in how creators store
their digital material and how these original orders differ from hard
copy original orders.  What can we tell of the creator now through how
they create and store their photographs?    

Catherine

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[mailto:personal_archives-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Martha
Langford
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 9:35 AM
To: Personal_archives at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Personal_archives] Tuesday morning

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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