Faculty of ArtHISTORY 4P50 — 2021W READING LIST
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Weeks 1 & 2 – Digital preservation
Introduction, basic concepts and background
Greg Bak, “For the record: Digitizing archives can increase access to information but compromise privacy.” The Conversation, Feb 28, 2021.
For the record: Digitizing archives can increase access to information but compromise privacy (theconversation.com)
Su-Shing Chen, “The Paradox of Digital Preservation,” Computer (March 2001): 24-28.
Brian Lavoie ad Lorcan Demsey, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at…Digital Preservation” (2004)
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html
Anne Kenney and Nancy McGovern, “Ten Good Reasons to Pursue Digital Preservation” (2006)
https://www.canada.ca/en/heritage-information-network/services/digital-preservation/ten-reasonspursue-digital-preservation.html
Canadian Council of Archives, “Digitization and Archives” (2002)
Applications
Kreiseler, Sarah. “Between Re-production and Re-presentation: The Implementation of Photographic Art Reproduction in the Documentation of Museum Collections Online.” Open Library of Humanities 4, no.2 (2018): 1-35 https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.273
Preston, Richard. “Capturing the Unicorn.” The New Yorker. April 3, 2005.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/capturing-the-unicorn
Howard Besser, “The Changing Role of Photographic Collections with the Advent of Digitization”
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Papers/replaced/garmil-eastman.html
Further Reading:
UNESCO’s Draft charter on the preservation of the digital heritage
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000131178
Week 3 – Photography and Sports Photography
Burgin, Victor. “Looking at Photographs.” In Thinking Photography, edited by Victor Burgin, 142-43. Macmillan Press, 1982. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16716-6
Huggins, Mike. “The Sporting Gaze: Towards a Visual Turn in Sports History— Documenting Art and Sport.” Journal of Sport History 35, no.2 (2008): 311-329. Accessed June 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26404826
O’Mahony, Mike. “Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Photography and the Visual Representation of Sport.” Historical Social Research, 45, no.2 (2018): 25-38. Accessed June 9, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.2.25-38
O’Mahony, Mike. “The Art and Artifice of Early Sports Photography.” Sport in Society: Interrelationships between Sport and the Arts Community 22, no.5 (2019): 785-802. Accessed June 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2018.1431382
Week 4 – The ‘visual turn’ in oral history
Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson, “Introduction: Oral History and Photography,” in Oral History and Photography, ed. Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 61-76.
Janis Wilton, “Imaging Family Memories: My Mum, her photographs, our memories,” in Oral History and Photography, ed. Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 61-76.
Carol Payne, “ ‘You hear it in their voice’: Photographs and cultural consolidation among Inuit youths and elders,” in Oral History and Photography, ed. Alexander Freund and Alistair Thomson (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 97-114.