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What Remains of the Mass Phenomenon of Photography?

Selection – Sorting – Acquisition

11.10. - 12.10.2018

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Date

11.10. - 12.10.2018

Location

Museumsakademie Joanneum

Meeting point

Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (DE)

Costs

190 €, reduced fee 140 € (The reduced fee is available to students, trainees, unemployed people, and employees of this year’s cooperation partners.)

External registration

Please register via e-mail.

 

Contact

+43-664/8017-9537

museumsakademie@museum-joanneum.at

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About the
Event

The transition from analog to digital photography has not only fundamentally changed our everyday practices, it also presents institutions with a number of challenges. For some time now, extensive analog holdings like press archives or photographic estates have been turned over to public collections because they are obsolete in today’s image economy. More than ever, the question becomes what should be done with this massive physical legacy of the 19th and 20th centuries. What strategies need to be developed for the selection and evaluation of photos when it is increasingly becoming clear that we cannot preserve everything? At the same time, how much do we need to consider tomorrow when we ask what of today’s digital production should be retained for posterity? This workshop will deal with this dual challenge and discuss the criteria needed to rethink selection processes and the acquisition of photographs.


with the Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln (DE) and the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (DE)

With

Jens Bove Director of the Deutsche Fotothek Dresden (DE)

Ulrich Fischer Deputy Head of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (DE)

Johanna Gummlich Head of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne (DE)

Lucia Halder Curator of the historical photo collection at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Cultures of the World, Cologne (DE)

Jens Jäger Historian and visual scientist, Institute of History, University of Cologne (DE)

Matthias Meusch State Archive of North Rhine-Westphalia, Duisburg (DE)

Nadine Thiel Head of Preservation, Historical Archive of the City of Cologne (DE)

 

Organisers of the workshop

Nora Mathys Photo historian and collection manager Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne (CH)

Eva Tropper Museumsakademie Joanneum (AT)