by Ethan Barnett | Dec 13, 2017 | Baltimore, Theorizing the archive
To improve user experience listen to this while reading. If you take a glance at this photo, many potential scenarios come to mind. Are they related? Is she his caretaker? Are they neighbors? Does he know that she’s black? Do they love each other? One critique of the...
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 Katharine Fitzgerald | Dec 8, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
I spent a lot of time this past summer helping my mom go through old family photographs. After my grandparents’ passing several years ago, we inherited hundreds of images as old as the 1850s and as recent as 2013. While some faces were familiar, many of the people...
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...
