218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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This alternative study of archive and photography brings many types of image assemblages into view, always in relation to the regulated systems operating within the institutional milieu. The archive catalogue is presented as a critical tool for mapping image time, and the language of image description is seen as having a life, a worth and an aesthetic value of its own. Functioning at the... Read more
List of illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1 The archivization of the image, 2 The social archive, 3 Catalogue, list, description, 4 The archiving camera, 5 Archival art, performativity and poetics, 6 Afterword: the post-digital archive, Works cited, Index
Biography
Jane Birkin is an artist, designer and scholar. She is a visiting lecturer and research assistant at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and she works on exhibitions in the University's Special Collections Division. The administration system of the archive is the primary locus of Birkin's writing and practice.
