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[/caption] Please join us on Wednesday\, January 24\, for a talk by Professor Emerita Joan M. Schwartz\, “i-Crimes and Misdemeanours: Between a nalogue photographs and their digital surrogates.”
Under pressu re from administrators\, funders\, and the user-public\, institutions striv e to make photographs available online as searchable single items. In the p rocess\, the relationship between materiality and meaning is easily effaced \, and valuable information about the physical and intellectual contexts of creation\, circulation\, and viewing is sacrificed at the altar of speed\, quantity\, convenience\, and the almighty dollar. In this lecture\, I poin t to examples of those instances for which institutions can justly be accus ed of “i-Crimes and Misdemeanours.” With a view to balancing access aims an d descriptive affordances\, I raise the distinction between search and rese arch\, call for a broader appreciation of photographs as “working objects i n their own time” (Frizot)\, and advocate for better "best practices" as a way to bring the in-situ experience of analogue photographs and on-screen e ncounter with their digital surrogates into closer alignment.
A former specialist in photography acquisition and research at the National Archives of Canada\, Ottawa (1977–2003)\, Joan Schwartz is Professor Emerita of History of Photography and Nineteenth-century Visual Culture in Art History and Art Conservation with a cross-appointment to Geography\, a t Queen’s University. She is co-editor of Picturing Place (with James R. Ry an)\; of Archives\, Records\, and Powe r (with the late Terry Cook)\; and All Shook Up: The Archival Legacy of Ter ry Cook (with Tom Nesmith and Greg Ba k). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, the Royal Canadian Geographic al Society\, the Society of American Archivists\, and the Association of Ca nadian Archivists\, she has published widely on photography and the geograp hical imagination and on archives as spaces of power. She recently guest-ed ited a special issue of Scientia Canad ensis on “Photography: Science\, Tech nology\, and Practice” (44:1). Her current SSHRCC-funded research\, entitle d “Picturing ‘Canada’: Photographic Images and Geographical Imaginings in B ritish North America\, 1839–1889\,” focuses on the role of photography in t he making of early modern Canada.
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