Order and collapse
Subtitle: the lives of archives
By: translation: Anna Kyrö ; Hasselbladstiftelsen
Series: Negative; Negative
Publisher: Art and Theory Publishing; Akademin Valand, Göteborgs universitet
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Stockholm; Göteborg
Language: eng; swe
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9789188031020
Subjects: Photographs; Conservation and restoration; Photography; Digital techniques; Digital preservation; Archival materials; Digitization
Description: The normative order and authoritarian use of conventional archives has long been criticised. This volume investigates the digitally informed transformation and multiplication of archives today, in conjunction with the increase in both accessibility and the amount of data produced, stored, and circulated. Despite improved search capabilities, documents, photographs, and other images are in danger of vanishing. Yet new knowledge, connotations, and materialities are also emerging. Through various texts and artworks, a selection of contemporary artistic and research-based approaches to existing archives, the act of collecting images, and creating new archives is represented.
Notes: Parallel texts in English and Swedish.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Be furious you're going to die / Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin; title: W. Eugene Smith: soft music and harsh bullets / Leslie Squyres; title: Social media platforms as default archives: unintended consequences / Jessica Bushey; title: A case study from practice-based photo history / Tyrone Martinsson; title: Chaos of memories: surviving archives and the ruins of history according to the found photo foundation / paula roush; title: The advantages of the unintentional: noch ist nichts zu sehen (nothing yet to be seen) / Peter Piller.