[Personal_archives] Description question

[Rodney Carter]

Hi Jane,
I would probably approach it as one fonds with two series, one for personal
and one for the studio. You would then have the biographical information for
the photographer at the highest level and then specify in the administrative
history and scope and content notes the activities which led to the creation
of particular photographs. If the distinction between activities are very
rigid you could potentially also use sous-fonds to separate them, although I
am not sure how frequently sous-fonds are used outside descriptions of
corporate records.
Rodney

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Jane Britton <jbritton at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

>  Last year a local photographer donated his negatives to our repository
> and in the course of  writing a fonds description it occurred to me that
> there was no direction in RAD or in the literature that I could find on how
> to treat the fonds of an individual who is also a business. Looking at other
> photographer’s studio fonds listed in CAIN it’s apparent that most are
> described under the business or studio name (many of these also have a
> succession of photographers), a decision that makes intuitive sense but one
> that I have begun to question.
>
>
>
> In the case of photographers, it is usually only their oeuvre, if you will,
> that ends up in an archive, so although photographs are created by the
> individual, it is the individual wearing a business hat, so the business
> name is used as the creator, say for example “Black Tie Studio fonds”. (
> Although I would like to think, for argument’s sake, that the person’s name
> would be an equally valid choice.)
>
>
>
> In this particular case I have reason to think that the photographer will
> also donate his personal photographs to us. In that case he as an individual
> would be the creator and the fonds would be “Joe Black fonds”. So my dilemma
> is, do I then have one fonds or two fonds? Or one fonds with two series,
> Personal and Studio photographs? Or what?
>
>
>
> If anyone has dealt with this situation before or has any thoughts I would
> be grateful for some input.
>
>
>
> Regards and thanks.
>
>
>
> Jane Britton
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