Detailed Information on Publication Record
2010
Oudadate Pix. Revealing a photographic archive
TRNKOVÁ, PetraBasic information
Original name
Oudadate Pix. Revealing a photographic archive
Name in Czech
Oudadate Pix. Odhalování fotografického archivu
Authors
Edition
Praha, 263 pp. 2010
Publisher
Artefactum
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Odborná kniha
Field of Study
Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
ISBN
978-80-86890-31-9
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Reviewed
Změněno: 30/12/2011 18:24, Mgr. Petra Trnková, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
In recent years, interest in photographic heritage has been a burgeoning phenomenon, and with it an awareness that much remains to be discovered. With surprising frequency, valuable and often long-neglected compilations of photographs come to light, much of their contents in unfortunate states of deterioration. One such collection, consisting of tens of thousands of photographs taken between the 1850s and the 1950s was recently revealed in the possession of the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague. Working on the first 22,000 of them, the authors acquired a broad and international base of hands-on experience, something they share here in the hope of contributing to ongoing discussions of attitudes to our photographic legacy. Addressing the history of photography, collection management, digitization, cataloguing, and photograph conservation, this publication is invaluable to all who are concerned with the care of photographic material.