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George Rodger Biography

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Kate

George Rodger was one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Magnum Photos which was established in 1947. Robert Capa and himself, once photographers for Time & Life Magazine, imagined a photographic career not dictated and copyrighted by magazines, but under their own names. Magnum Photos has now been running for 67 years, Jinx…

George Rodger Biography Research

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Kate

George Rodger was one of the founding members of the highly acclaimed Magnum Photos which was established in 1947. Robert Capa and himself, once photographers for Time & Life Magazine, imagined a photographic career not dictated and copyrighted by magazines, but under their own names. Magnum Photos has now been running for 67 years, Jinx…

Research: Getty Images

Posted on January 18, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

In 1995, Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein founded Getty Images to bring the fragmented stock photography business into the digital age. And that’s exactly what they did. We were the first company to license imagery online – and have continued to drive the industry forward with breakthrough licensing models, digital media management tools and a…

Flickr: The Commons

Posted on January 17, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

In conversation with Aaron Guy (my archive guru) he recalled the Sunderland University Photography Conference from 2011 and how some talks/papers may be of use to me. I couldn’t be more grateful for his effort in helping me retrieve this information: he successfully got the webpage of the talk back online to browse. The last…

Open Access and the Paywall

Posted on January 13, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

An unlikely relationship. Seemingly more like arch-enemies in the digital economic landscape as Open Access activists freely oppose the paywall which restricts the everyman to information that apparently “wants to be free”. Paywalls A paywall does exactly what it says on the tin: you can’t go through the gate unless you pay to get in….

Research: The Library of Congress

Posted on January 10, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

The biggest library in the world, the Library of Congress is a publicly funded archive in the USA with “155.3 million items on approximately 838 miles of bookshelves” (Library of Congress Website). In this research I am going to look more closely into: Its funding/budget Its website functionality and design Funding/Budget: In an article from…

Research: What are Commercial/Public Archives?

Posted on January 9, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

In essence, it is exactly what it says on the tin. Commercial archives are archives which are set to make many from its content, whether that be by subscription, auction or buying print copies. Publicly Funded archive are paid for by governments from taxpayers so that information is free. Starting with commercial archives, I have…

Research Proposal

Posted on January 8, 2014March 29, 2015 by Kate

After months of taking a general interest in the future of digital archiving, including the challenges it faces as physical archives are fast approaching their expiration, I have come to my second revised version of my research proposal. The first being very broad: I wanted to look into the technicalities of what it means to…

Time archive review

Posted on December 31, 2013March 29, 2015 by Kate

Time Magazine has an online archive of its published magazines from March 1923 to present day. Time Magazine was America’s first weekly magazine, established by Henry Luce and Birton Hadden and its first publication was in March 2023. Therefore, the online archive is as substantial as it gets, having content from every year of its…

National Archives and Records Administration – Digitising Archives Research

Posted on November 10, 2013March 29, 2015 by Kate

    This brings up points of what I am researching: – digital can be easily searched and delivered – digital is vulnerable to new forms (tampering, storage failures) – use digital differently from paper records   Technicalities:   This is really technically in depth; however, the on going debate is how a system is…

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