Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6372-964-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

Reihe: Recursions

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 intersection of text and image, the book combines media culture, archival techniques, and contemporary discourse on art and conceptual writing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birkin, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Besondere Themen und Arten der Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Birkin, Jane
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.