Workers in an ethnographic archive: On the strategies of (re-)constructing the past
Workers in an ethnographic archive: On the strategies of (re-)constructing the past
Author(s): Grażyna Ewa KarpińskaSubject(s): Cultural history, Photography, Archiving, Electronic information storage and retrieval, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, 19th Century
Published by: Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave, Filozofická fakulta
Keywords: ethnographic archive; workers; photographs; digital repository Workers in the 19th and 20th century; heritage;
Summary/Abstract: The article describes a collection of 9,000 photographs with captions – entries to a worker-oriented photographic contest – and the paths by which they came from private albums through the contest and museum exhibitions, until they found a place in the ethnographic archive of the Łódź University and in a digital repository. Having left household archives, they became a part of a public heritage rooted in, and dependent on, various historical contexts. Each procedure in some way determined the fortunes of the collection and constituted a choice that imparted a certain shape and meaning to the photographs.
Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
- Issue Year: 10/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 105-117
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English