by Ethan Barnett | Dec 11, 2017 | Baltimore, Theorizing the archive
“We depend on images to give substance, if not meaning, to the fleeting moments of our life. A world without photographic images is almost inconceivable.”- Susan Sontag Many of my memories and the memories people have of me are paired with some sort of...
by Dorothy Fisher | Dec 9, 2017 | Baltimore, Lewis Gwynn, Location, Studios
This Baltimore Collection photograph of an unidentified woman standing on a residential street presents many challenges to the researcher. Badly faded, the details are almost imperceptible. We can see the contours of a woman in the foreground, wearing a long,...
by Katharine Fitzgerald | Dec 8, 2017 | Baltimore, Location
A child looks adoringly at a woman who sits comfortably in a cloth-backed chair. They appear to be on a porch, with a cedar-shingled wall behind them and a flatwoven rug over a cement ground beneath their feet. She tries to amuse him with a teddy bear, but fails to...
by Carrie Greif | Dec 7, 2017 | Baltimore
As radical archivist-historian-scholar-students, we have set out to provide a platform for a collection of photographs that had been all but lost. Tucked away in the vast archive at the University of Delaware the photos that comprise the Baltimore collection were...
by Kira Lyle | Dec 7, 2017 | Location, Washington, D.C.
A commonality of the photographs in “The Baltimore Collection” is that one must spend a great amount of time looking before truly seeing. Within the embossed frame of the mounted silver gelatin developing-out print (accession number 2001.0017.0019) created at B. W....
by Bridget Killian | Dec 6, 2017 | Location, Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice, Unknown Location
The photograph [Ten-month-old portrait of Gladis May Kell(e?)y] features a depiction of a black infant wearing a dress and close-fitting bonnet seated in an outdoor setting.[1] This object has an inscription written on its mount below the image. The mount is grey in...
