Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz; this means that 75 years ago Magnum co-founder George Rodger was one of the first photojournalists to witness and report the devastation. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/233027398″ params=”color=1560ab&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I was with Jinx Rodger a couple of years ago uncovering her late husband’s photographic archive…
Category: Archives want to be Free
Information doesn’t want to be Free…
I have been carrying around Cory Doctorow’s most recent book Information Doesn’t want to be Free like it’s the Bible. Over a year ago I researched opening archives for mass (digital) consumption for a talk. I wish that Cory had published this book sooner! @KateGreen28 “For Kate!” by @doctorow pic.twitter.com/Gj8s8A1p2R — Jonathan Worth (@Jonathan_Worth) April 20,…
Evaluating Symposium talk on Open Archives
I learnt as much as I could of my script and relief mostly on my queue cards. This was difficult and I found that my nerves not only meant that I was looking down a lot, but that some of my words were mixed. Below I will ‘quote’ my script and write evaluative text throughout….
Digitisation Process
The digitisation process is long and expensive, especially for precious delicate photography. Here is a video of the digitisation process of the Costica Axinte archive of wet plate prints. Cleaning, polishing, scanning, adding meta data, uploading, backing up… It takes a long time. But many of the prints are disintegrating and require so much care…
Tutorial with Jonathan Shaw
Two weeks or so before the symposium I spoke with Jonathan Shaw after he tweeted me about his interest in my research and wanted to ask a few questions so that I was on the right track. @KateGreen28 Hi Kate, just thinking of your archive research project, are you touching on ideas of ‘taxonomy’ ‘licensing’…
Storify
Here is the Storify of the Twitter engagement around my symposium talk, with special mentions from Yield Magazine. [View the story “KateGreen28 at #IMG19 symposium” on Storify]
#IMG19 Symposium
The Day- On Wednesday 26th February I arrived at The Herbert Art Gallery at 8.30am; the receptionist said that we didn’t have a booking, so I had to sort this out. Another lady went to take us upstairs but I explained that we booked the downstairs room as that is what we had viewed and…
Stuart Whipps
I visited the Ikon Gallery in 2011 to see Stuart Whipps’ installation ‘Uncatagorised Boxes’. The work was eluding to the short-lived architectural culture of Birmingham. Architect John Madin saw more than one of his buildings get demolished in his lifetime, and all the remains are the archives of the plans for them. Paper has outlived…
Longevity of Archives
Digitising archives should not be for the purpose of preserving the information longer. Think over the last 20 years, or even 10, at how digital technology has changed. The Internet has evolved from a slow wired up service to something that can be used on most mobile phones, wirelessly and quickly. The Internet now is…
Peer Feedback
Last week before I quickly rushed off to Kent I presented the first draft of my symposium. I wasn’t happy with having to present something to rushed and not ready to actually be read aloud. I also wasn’t prepared visually: with a topic that in its nature isn’t really visual there weren’t any pictures I…