by Ida Zago | Feb 20, 2018 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
During the second meeting of Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive (CHC), Jennifer MacDonald, Jaime Margalotti, and Theresa Hessey, librarians from the University of Delaware’s Special and Digital Collections, came and spoke to our class.[1] They laid...
by Simone Renee Austin | Dec 29, 2017 | Theorizing the archive
“The Baltimore Collection” has much to offer both the casual browser and scholars searching for images for their next book. The research opportunities led me to want to consider who these sitters are in the portraits. The driving question I have about...
by Kelli Coles | Dec 13, 2017 | Theorizing the archive, Theory & Practice
Before entering the fall 2017 semester’s graduate course with Professor Julie McGee, “Curating Hidden Collections & the Black Archive,” I did not know the phrase “decolonizing the archive.” When I heard the phrase, it resonated with me and spoke to one of my...
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...
