by Carrie Greif | Dec 6, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
Learning how to create an unbiased space for content that can be easily discovered is not a simple or easy discovery. If you google how to a take a good portrait photo odds are that you will not find a concrete answer. Sure, you may get some tips about using a...
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...
by Bridget Killian | Dec 6, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
In the course Curating Hidden Collections and the Black Archive our class was tasked with conducting research about “The Baltimore Collection” in order to supply information for its digital archive. This Collection consists of fifty-three photographs that...
by Allison Robinson | Dec 4, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
The library is not just a physical building designed to hold books nor an unquestionable authority holding the knowledge of our forebears. Rather, it is a constantly shifting, changing, and evolving organizational system, driven collectively by the librarians working...
by Sara McNamara | Dec 1, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
A photograph is a powerful tool of representation. Taking a photo is an act of power by determining how something or someone is represented. Sitting for a photo is also an act of power, but it can be a way of self-defining one’s identity and representing one’s self to...
by Kira Lyle | Nov 26, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
Christopher Columbus is dead. The consequences of his legacy of conquest and violence however, as well as the legacy of all colonizers, play out in contemporary society in ways far greater and subtler than October mattress sales.[1] “The archive” as both a...
