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Peter Buse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The polaroid image as photo-object
Journal of Visual Culture, 2010Co-Authors: Peter BuseAbstract:This article is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research done at the Polaroid Corporate Archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself. It identifies two cultural practices engendered by Polaroid photography, which, at the point of its extinction, has briefly flared into visibility again. It argues that these practices are mistaken as novel but are in fact rediscoveries of practices that stretch back as many as five decades. The first section identifies Polaroid image-making as a photographic equivalent of what Tom Gunning calls the ‘cinema of attractions’. That is, the emphasis in its use is on the display of photographic technologies rather than the resultant image. Equally, the common practice, in both fine art and vernacular circles, of making composite pictures with Polaroid prints, draws attention from image content and redirects it to the photo as object.
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Polaroid into digital: Technology, cultural form, and the social practices of snapshot photography
Continuum, 2010Co-Authors: Peter BuseAbstract:This essay is part of a larger project on the cultural history of Polaroid photography and draws on research carried out at the Polaroid Corporate Archive at Harvard and at the Polaroid company itself in Waltham and Concord, Massachusetts. It sets out to make an addition to the understanding of the new social practices generated by digital photography, but does so by examining an old technology rendered obsolete by the new. It outlines the recent history and decline of Polaroid and identifies the specific properties of the Polaroid image: its speed of appearance, its elimination of the darkroom, and the singularity of the final print. It then addresses the significance of the affinities and differences between the old and new ‘instant’ photographies, particularly in terms of the snapshot practices that they encourage.
Susanna Fellman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Power, Archives and the Making of Rhetorical Organizational Histories: A stakeholder perspective:
Organization Studies, 2019Co-Authors: Andrew Popp, Susanna FellmanAbstract:We contribute to the rhetorical history concept by focusing on the Corporate Archive, a key source for constructing rhetorical histories. We propose a stakeholder perspective as a way to model the ...
Sue Mckemmish - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Toward the Archival Multiverse: Challenging the Binary Opposition of the Personal and Corporate Archive in Modern Archival Theory and Practice
Archivaria, 2013Co-Authors: Sue Mckemmish, Michael PiggottAbstract:This article points to the binary oppositions that characterize modern archival theory and much practice in the English-speaking archival world, with particular reference to the way they are manifest in the Australian context. At a time when mergers of library and Archives institutions are increasingly an option, it is appropriate to consider in particular the impact of the binary construct of the manuscripts tradition in libraries on the one hand, and the focus of most national and state Archives on government records on the other. In this article, we challenge the binary opposition of the personal and Corporate Archive, drawing on records continuum, postmodern, and postcustodial archival theory as developed in Australia and elsewhere; Indigenous ways of knowing; and emergent thinking on co-creation, the multiple simultaneous provenance of records, and the archival multiverse. We point to the need for archival research and theory building relating to the plurality of personal and Corporate recordkeeping behaviours and cultures in the context of the complex interrelationships between “evidence of me” and “evidence of us” in the continuum, and in the online cultures and shared spaces of our digital worlds. We conclude with some suggestions about the rich possibilities for further research on personal recordkeeping in these contexts. RESUME Cet article montre les oppositions binaires qui caracterisent la theorie archivistique moderne et plusieurs pratiques professionnelles dans le monde archivistique anglophone, en se penchant surtout sur la facon dont elles se manifestent dans le contexte australien. A une epoque quand les amalgamations des bibliotheques et des Archives deviennent de plus en plus communes, il importe de considerer en particulier l’impact d’une construction binaire specifique : d’un cote, la tradition manuscrite dans les bibliotheques, et de l’autre, l’accent place par la plupart des Archives nationales et etatiques sur les Archives gouvernementales. Dans cet article, nous contestons l’opposition binaire des Archives personnelles et corporatives, en nous inspirant du continuum des documents d’Archives, des theories archivistiques postmodernes et des theories allant au-dela de la theorie traditionnelle de la garde des documents (« post-custodial ») developpees en Australie et ailleurs, les facons autochtones de savoir, et les pensees emergentes autour de la co-creation, de la provenance multiple et simultanee des documents d’Archives, et de multivers archivistiques. Nous montrons le besoin de recherche en archivistique et en construction de la theorie qui sont liees a la pluralite des pratiques et des cultures de gestion des documents d’Archives personnelles et corporatives, dans un contexte d’interdependances complexes entre « la preuve du moi » et « la preuve du nous » dans ce continuum, et dans les cultures en ligne et les espaces partages de nos mondes numeriques. En conclusion, nous offrons quelques suggestions par rapport aux excellentes possibilites de recherches plus poussees en gestion des documents prives dans ces contextes.
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Archival Arrangement and Description
Encylopedia of Library and Information Science 3rd edition, 2011Co-Authors: Joanne Evans, Sue Mckemmish, Barbara ReedAbstract:Arrangement and description are processes traditionally associated with the transformation of an individual or Corporate Archive into a broader archival framework in order for it to function, alongside other such Archives, as accessible collective memory. They are integral to maintaining the authenticity, integrity, and reliability of records in an archival environment so that they may continue to function as evidence of the activities and contexts in which they were created and used. This article outlines the principles underlying archival arrangement and description, discusses the construction of arrangement and description traditions, and explores their transformation in response to the recordkeeping challenges of the late twentieth century.
Kushagra Saxena - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Discovery of Re-usable Architecture/Engineering Construction Knowledge Trough Exploration of a Corporate Memory : Chance Discovery of Reusable AEC Knowledge from a Corporate Memory
2004Co-Authors: Renate Fruchter, Peter Demian, Kushagra SaxenaAbstract:Re-using knowledge in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) firms can lead to greater competitive advantage, improved designs, and more effective management of constructed facilities. This paper discusses the importance of exploration and discovery of reusable knowledge from a Corporate Archive as opposed to simple search and retrieval. We describe and illustrate through a scenario of use an exploration framework and prototype, CoMemTM that formalizes the added value of exploration in the process of knowledge reuse. We discuss two exploration activities: (i) Breadth- Only overview exploration that assist a user to rapidly localize pockets of re-usable knowledge from the large Corporate Archive and (ii) Iterative breadth-depth exploration that enables a user to identify those re-usable components of the Corporate Memory that may yield design issues that were not originally considered.
Andrew Popp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Power, Archives and the Making of Rhetorical Organizational Histories: A stakeholder perspective:
Organization Studies, 2019Co-Authors: Andrew Popp, Susanna FellmanAbstract:We contribute to the rhetorical history concept by focusing on the Corporate Archive, a key source for constructing rhetorical histories. We propose a stakeholder perspective as a way to model the ...
