Notes on archives / Ines Schaber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaber, Ines, author.

Contributor:

Michael K. Schaefer Fund.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photograph collections.

Archives--Administration.

Archives.

Photography--Archive applications.

Photography.

Photographic criticism.

Photograph collections--Administration.

Physical Description:

volumes <1-5 > : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Archive Books ; Graz : Camera Austria, 2018-<[2019]>

Summary:

'Notes on Archives' is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a practice in which the set of problems that archives produce is in fact part of the process one engages in."--Front cover flap.

Notes on Archives' is a series of publications by artist Ines Schaber about archives and the practices we conduct in relation to them. Produced over the course of more than ten years, the publications feature a series of case studies, research, concrete projects, and reflections on the questions and problems that image archives pose today. The aim of the work is not to find or create another institutional archive per se, but to develop a practice in which the set of problems that archives produce is in fact part of the process one engages in.00In the process of transferring analog material to digital data banks, small independent archives are often not able to keep up with bigger, economically driven archives, such as stock-image companies.0'Notes on Archives 2: Culture Is Our Business' considers the case of Willy Römer, who in 1919 took a photograph of the street battles in the media district of Berlin during the German Revolution. Circulating widely throughout the twentieth century, Römer?s photograph in 2004 came to be owned simultaneously by a number of archives. Among them were the commercial stock-image agency Corbis, founded by Bill Gates, and the Agentur für Bilder zur Zeitgeschichte (Agency for images on contemporary history), an independent organization established by photo historian Diethart Kerbs. Both Corbis and Kerbs?s agency handle and make available the same image based on extremely different concepts and working processes.

Contents:

[volume] 1. Obtuse, flitting by, and in spite of all

image archives in practice

[volume] 2. Culture is our business

[volume] 3. Picture mining

[volume] 4. Dear Jadwa

[volume] 5. Unnamed series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of the exhibition "29km - Palestinian, german & israeli artists" held at the Umm el-Fahem Art Gallery, Israel, in collaboration with Goethe Institute, Tel Aviv and ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Michael K. Schaefer Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9783943620856

3943620859

9783943620863

3943620867

9783943620870

3943620875

9783943620887

3943620883

9783943620894

3943620891

OCLC:

1090242053