Introduction: Photographs, Archives and the Discourse of Nation

Caraffa, Costanza; Serena, Tiziana

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“…This is despite the fact that these elements are crucial to our understanding of the material. As highlighted by Caraffa (2011: 21) in her work on the transition of photographic libraries to archives, ‘Whether we are dealing with private or public archives, it is their historical process of formation, formalization, and, sometimes, institutionalization that deserves our attention.’…”

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The Thomas Ashby Photographic Archive: A Private Archive Now in the Public Domain

Giovenco,

Wade

2023

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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The prints, negatives and albums in the British School at Rome's Thomas Ashby Photographic Archive are a rich assortment of materials created by Ashby and his colleagues, such as Agnes and Dora Bulwer. The archive was the natural and spontaneous product of Ashby's personal and working life and it was not until after his death that it was transferred into the public institutional domain. This article investigates the original intention of Ashby's archive, its transfer from a private to public context, and its subsequent evolution and reception. Building on the work of previous BSR staff and scholars, the article looks at Ashby's archive from a fresh perspective, emphasizing the need to consider the archive's original non-public authorial intent, its polyphonic elements, and the diachronic nature of its formation and reception from Ashby's time to the present. Given that images within photographic archives are now regularly viewed as digital objects, this is a timely discussion of the nature of private photographic archives that have been moved into the public domain. It is now more important than ever that archives like Ashby's are acknowledged as entities with detailed and complex histories, and that these histories are taken into account when viewing the individual photographs within the archive.

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“… 4 For the establishment of a fototeca within such institutions see Caraffa, 2011: 21–2; Röll and Schallert, 2014: 169–82; Dally, 2019: 37.…”

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The Thomas Ashby Photographic Archive: A Private Archive Now in the Public Domain

Giovenco,

Wade

2023

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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Photo Archives and the History of Archaeology

Mallart

2024

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology

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This chapter explores the role of photo archives in the making of archaeological knowledge from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. It discusses, among other topics, their role in the pursuit of objectivity, their connections to nation-building processes, and the challenges and opportunities posed by the digital age. To do so, the chapter draws on a series of conceptual tools developed by several scholars, such as the notion of the “total photo archive,” the “documentary impulse” prompted by the emergence of photography, the conceptualization of photographs as “facts,” and the understanding of archival practices as “collective undertakings.” The chapter analyzes archaeological photo archives in Europe, the United States, and the rest of the world.

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