PRESENTATIONS: Philipp + Jed
READINGS
Yes, there are quite a few readings this week – but that’s just because there are so many excellent resources on picture collections! It’s only 88 pp in total, including lots of images. But you’re also welcome to read modularly: choose between either the Crimp/Springer/Spigelman set or the Kamin/Ernst set.
- John Tagg, “The Archiving Machine; or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet,” Grey Room 47 (Spring 2012): 24-37.
- If your brain is too full, you’re welcome to pick one of the following two sets:
- About the recognition of photography as an aesthetic object and the birth of the amazing NYPL Picture Collection: Douglas Crimp, “The Museum’s Old, The Library’s New Subject” in On the Museum’s Ruins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993): 66-83.
- Anna Sophie Springer, “Original Sun Pictures: Institutionalization” in Fantasies of the Library, eds. Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2014): 119-31 [odd pages only – although the whole book is lovely, and I highly recommend skimming through!]
- Art Spigelman, “Words, Worth a Thousand,” The New Yorker (February 20, 1995).
- About the politics, philosophy, and aesthetics of image classification, and how historical models prefigured the logics of machine vision: Diana Kamin, “Mid-Century Visions, Programmed Affinities: The Enduring Challenges of Image Classification,” Journal of Visual Culture 16:3 (2017): 310-36.
- Ignore the silly “archivology” neologism, and think instead about how new technologies might make possible new ways of searching through and engaging with digital image collections: Excerpt from Wolfgang Ernst, “Media Archaeology as a Transatlantic Bridge” in Digital Memory and the Archive, ed. Jussi Parikka (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013): 27-9.
- About the recognition of photography as an aesthetic object and the birth of the amazing NYPL Picture Collection: Douglas Crimp, “The Museum’s Old, The Library’s New Subject” in On the Museum’s Ruins (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993): 66-83.
- Nina Lager Vestberg, “Ordering, Searching, Finding,” Journal of Visual Culture 12:3 (2013): 472-89.
- Allison Meier, “Four Million Images from the World’s Endangered Archives,” Hyperallergic (February 23, 2015). See also the various preservation projects listed in the table of contents of Maja Kominko, Ed., From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015).
SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES
*Tina M. Campt, Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012); Costanza Caraffa, “From ‘Photo Libraries’ to ‘Photo Archives’: On the Epistemological Potential of Art-Historical Collections” in Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, ed. Costanza Caraffa (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011): 11-44; Paul Conway & Ricardo Punzalan, “Fields of Vision: Toward a New Theory of Visual Literacy for Digitized Archival Photographs,” Archivaria 71 (Spring 2011): 63-97; *Elizabeth Edwards’s 5 Excellent Blog Posts for the Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland (2016); Elizabeth Edwards, “Photographs: Material Form and the Dynamic Archive” in Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, ed. Costanza Caraffa (Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2011): 47-56; Wolfgang Ernst, “Translation of Photographic Archive into Algorithmic Time,” Either/And (n.d.); *Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder, eds., Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016); Joshua Rothman, “In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?” New Yorker (November 12, 2018); Tim Schlak, “Framing Photographs, Denying Archives: The Difficult of Focusing on Archival Photographs,” Archival Science 8 (2008: 85-101; Joan Schwartz, “Negotiating the Visual Turn: New Perspectives on Images and Archives,” American Archivist 67 (Spring/Summer 2004) (and other works by Schwartz); Sara Shatford, “Analyzing the Subject of a Picture: A Theoretical Approach,” Cataloguing & Classification Quarterly 6:3 (1986): 39-62; *Allan Sekula, “The Body and the Archive” October 39 (Winter 1986): 3-64; John Tagg, “The Archiving Machine; or, The Camera and the Filing Cabinet,” Grey Room 47 (Spring 2012): 24-37; Ernst Van Alphen, Staging the Archive: Art and Photography in the Age of New Media (London: Reaktion, 2014); Doireann Wallace, “Words as Keys to the Image Bank” In Revisualizing Visual Culture, eds. Chris Bailey & Hazel Gardiner (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010): 83-96; Akram Zaatari, “Against Photography: Conversation with Mark Westmoreland,” Aperture 210 (February 2013): 60-5. ↑