WORKERS IN AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE: ON THE STRATEGIES OF (RE-)CONSTRUCTING THE PAST

• Authors: Karpińska Grażyna Ewa
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article describes a collection of 9,000 photographs with captions – entries to a worker-oriented photographic contest – and the paths by which they came from private albums through the contest and museum exhibitions, until they found a place in the ethnographic archive of the Łódź University and in a digital repository. Having left household archives, they became a part of a public heritage rooted in, and dependent on, various historical contexts. Each procedure in some way determined the fortunes of the collection and constituted a choice that imparted a certain shape and meaning to the photographs.

Keywords

EN

ETHNOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES; WORKERS; PHOTOGRAPHS; DIGITAL REPOSITORY; HERITAGE

• Publisher: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo, o.z.
• Journal: Muzeológia a kultúrne dedičstvo
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 105 - 117

Contributors

author

Karpińska Grażyna Ewa

• University of Lodz, Faculty of Philosophy and History, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2102-774X

Identifiers

DOI

10.46284/mkd.2022.10.1.6