In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate
and revealing stories about individuals and families. Rather than isolate the individual …

This book is about the “photographic turn” in oral history. Historians' interest in photographs—
their “discovery of old photographs”—dates back, according to Raphael Samuel's …

'Showing and Telling'is the first academic work to explore how publicly funded film heritage
institutes account for their mandate in their public activities. It does that by inspecting and …

This dissertation is interested in how archival theory—the theoretical work of archiving
produced by archivists and, to a lesser extent, the modes of doing archival research …

In recent years, the long-term preservation of digital records has received increasing
attention. Several research initiatives have focused upon the challenges presented by the …

The emergence of the new format of electronic/digital records provides the opportunity for
archivists to reconsider the presumed format-neutrality of professional practice. As research …

The literature review explores the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in enhancing access to
and management of photographic archives. As digital and analog photographs proliferate in …

This thesis argues that a postmodernist understanding of archival records and the mediating
role of archivists demands new approaches to the viewing and description of photographic …

Photographic records have long presented a challenge to archivists. As photographs first
began to enter archival institutions in significant volumes during the second halfofthe …

Photographs of anonymous people are found in all manner of archival repositories. Because
they lack identifying text, these records are at risk of being devalued and ignored. This thesis …