Endangered Archives By Richard | 16 May 2012 | Archives Small amounts of public funding can make an enormous difference to a photographer. But there are some objectives like, for example, ?safeguarding the documentary heritage of humankind? that require more substantial backing. The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library … Continue reading → 
Conserving the Archive By Richard | 10 May 2012 | Archives A photographic archive serves to preserve collections of photographs. Inevitably one of its responsibilities is therefore to conserve those pictures. In 2001 Elizabeth Martin and Martin Barnes of the V&A wrote an article for Source about the underlying conservation challenges that face … Continue reading → 
The National Photographic Archive By Richard | 07 May 2012 | Archives Elizabeth Kirwan is the current curator of the National Photographic Archive which opened in 1998. When it opened the Archive consisted of a new building ? designed by O'Donnell and Tuomy ? into which the existing collection of the National … Continue reading → 
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