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Zaatari: History and Photographic Memory [d850e39b]

Tags: Problems and Methods - Archival Turn, papers

  • Akram Zaatari reflects on the Arab Image Foundation
  • Argues that the foundation was largely a collection and museum at first, and has turned into an archive
  • Early parts of the foundation were highly curated
  • For space reasons, it breaks apart the collections for it's own archival organization
  • "Archeologists know very well that ultimate way to conserve archeology is to keep it buried underneath the Earth" DiCapua - Gatekeepers of the Arab Past
  • "Ephemeral acts can be radical acts of conservation" - 177
  • "Many collectors develop an irresitible desire to own more and more of the same thing" - pg 178