I am talking today to the Photojournalism students about archives, which gives me a chance to reflect on the course I attended earlier in the year. I wonder what they will think of it...
I am collating all the relevant links in the post below.
Exhibition [at Tate Modern]
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan [video]
Course details
Investigating the Archive; Photographic Collections of London [Birkbeck/Photographers’ gallery]
Individual archives mentioned
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/about/archive-services
http://www.flickr.com/photos/westminsteruniarchives/
http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ta/
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/collections/photoarchiveintro/photoarchive.aspx
http://www.magnumphotos.com/
http://www.vam.ac.uk/resources/print_study_reading/index.html
http://www.therai.org.uk/the-rai-photographic-library/
http://www.apimages.com/
http://www.galeuk.com/trialsite/ [Picture Post Historical Archive trial site]
Other archives
http://www.corbisimages.com/
http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/
www.gettyimages.com/archival
http://www.arts.ac.uk/kubrick-archive.htm
London Metropolitan Archives
Internet Archive
Digital Book Index [Photography Collections] [Photography periodicals]
http://www.npg.org.uk/research/archive.php
http://www.winningendeavours.org/
Online hubs
http://archiveshub.ac.uk/
http://www.aim25.ac.uk/
http://www.photographiclibraries.com/
References
Bacon, J. (2007). Archive, archive, archive! Circa Art Magazine, no. 119, p. 50-59
Foster, J. & Sheppard, J. (2002) British archives: a guide to archive resources in the United Kingdom, 4th ed. Hampshire: Palgrave. [available in Archive Services at Regent]
McDonald, S. (2004). HultonArchive – History In Pictures. Accessed from: http://corporate.gettyimages.com/masters2/conservation/articles/HAHistory.pdf
Mereweather, C. (2006) (ed.). The archive [documents in contemporary art]. London: Whitechapel.
Phillips, C. (1982). The judgement seat of photography. October, 22: 27-63. [online]. Accessed from: JSTOR < http://www.jstor.org/stable/778362 >. [Accessed 29 March 2011].
Picture Post Historical Archive [online] [product description]. Available from: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/product-highlights/history/picture-post-historical-archive.aspx [Accessed 05/05/2011].
Phillips, S. S. (2003). ‘A history of evidence’ in Sultan, L. & Mandel, M. (2003). Evidence. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Sekula, A. (2002). ‘Reading an archive; photography between labour and capital’ (pp. 443-452 in Wells, L. (ed. ) (2002). The photography reader. Routledge.
Sekula, AL. (1986). The body and the archive. October, vol. 39, p. 3-64.
Zylinska, Joanna(2010) 'On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs', Photographies, 3:2, 139 — 153 [Special Issue: Photography, Archive and Memory]
