Old NYC The NYPL created a website that maps archival photos of New York City onto an interactive map. As someone interested in memory, this website intrigues me because of the layered memories associated with one place. There are pictures…
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Old NYC and Browsing History
Tagged with: Classon Point, Colonization, New York History, photography, resistance, The Bronx, Thomas Cornell
Posted in Archives, Cataloging, Library
Posted in Archives, Cataloging, Library
The Cost of Nostalgia
The other week I dropped off 2 rolls of 35mm to be developed by a local lab that does the process in-house. In my previous experience with this, I was given my negatives developed and would go to campus to…
Tagged with: Analog, Archives, art archive, Cataloging, digitization, photography, Preservation, technology
Posted in Archives, Born Digital, Preservation
Posted in Archives, Born Digital, Preservation
Ethics in the Vivian Maier Archive
I first heard about Vivian Maier over 10 years ago from my Dad who was active on Kickstarter and supporting a campaign to fund a documentary about the discovery of her work called “Finding Vivian Maier.” The documentary, made by…
Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Visual Classifications at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Throughout our recent conversations on classification, I couldn’t help but think of Bernd & Hilla Becher. The duo was recently the subject of a retrospective held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They are famous for their photographic typologies of…
Tagged with: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Classification, Museums, photography, typology
Posted in Classification, Museums
Posted in Classification, Museums
Project 562: Decolonizing Indigenous Photography
In my junior year of undergrad, a woman named Matika Wilbur came to speak at our Convocation ceremony. Matika Wilbur is a photographer from the Swinomish and Tulalip tribes, and ten years ago, she sold everything in her apartment in…
Exploring NYC History with the Urban Archive
I first learned about Urban Archive during NewYorkScape’s Culture Mapping conference in 2020. The organization’s mission is to make local history accessible to the public, specifically through web and mobile applications. Recognizing that archival collections are often difficult for the…
Tagged with: digital archives, maps, New York City history, photography, Urban Archive
Posted in Archives, Preservation
Posted in Archives, Preservation
Digitally Archiving COVID-19
From social distancing norms to quarantines and lockdowns, COVID-19 has permeated every aspect of our lives in the unprecedented year 2020 has become. To highlight the social effects of this pandemic, libraries (especially university libraries) across the world have urged…
Tagged with: Archives, COVID-19, digital archives, Library of Congress, photography
Posted in Archives, Libraries
Posted in Archives, Libraries
The Conservation of Rare Photographs
I recently watched a fascinating video on Youtube by PBS NewsHour as part of Canvas, their regular series on arts and culture, detailing the amazing work being done in the Photo Conservation Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. With…
Tagged with: conservation, photography, Preservation, The Art Institute of Chicago
Posted in Archives, Museums, Preservation, Uncategorized
Posted in Archives, Museums, Preservation, Uncategorized
by Hugh McLeod
INFO 653 Knowledge Organization 