Zylinska, Joanna. 2010. On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs. Photographies, 3(2), pp. 139-153. ISSN 1754-0763 [Article]

No full text available

Abstract or Description

This article explores anxieties over the challenge digitisation poses to our established notions of art, culture and the media. It also questions some of the ways of defending these established notions and values via multiple strategies of remembrance, archiving and data storage. Although photographic arts – in particular, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas, Walid Ra’ad’s The Atlas Group Archive, Tacita Dean’s Floh – provide an entry point for the discussion at hand, the argument focuses on socio-cultural and political, as much as aesthetic, issues. The “amateur” is taken here as a pivotal concept for rethinking the relationship between media production, media consumption and art, and for considering what it means to both photograph and archive photographs "seriously” in the age of digital cameras, Flickr and the ubiquitous “delete” button.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2010.499608
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Research Office > REF2014
Dates:	Date Event September 2010 Published
Item ID:	5811
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2011 12:32
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2017 15:13
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/5811

Available Versions of this Item

• On Bad Archives, Unruly Snappers and Liquid Photographs. (deposited 27 Sep 2011 12:32) [Currently Displayed]

Edit Record (login required)