Ans westra biography of christopher columbus
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NEW ZEALAND’S PHOTO TREASURES HEADING FOR THE TIP? - Part 10
Notes on the collection of photographers’ collections for posterity
A PhotoForum discussion paper by John B Turner
Part A case for more curators, The Simple Image, and Barry Clothier & John Turner’s Artides Gallery exhibition in
Collecting institutions are demanding photographers provide more detailed annotated and catalogued information about their work than was expected in the past, before their collection will even be considered for inclusion. Thus, there is a corresponding need for many accomplished photographers who perhaps vainly assumed that their pictures said it all, to be coached in how to describe the content and form of their images with as much clarity as they can provide for our picture archives.
John B Turner
Notes about learning on the job, mentorship, issues of fact and opinion, quality control, public relations, transparency, owning up when things go wrong, and making amends.
I am curious that there are so few designated curators of photography in New Zealand and that our heritage institutions and libraries seldom give their most experienced staff that title, no matter how qualified, enthusiastic, and active they are in that capacity. It might be due in part to the
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Ans Westra: Urban Drift
Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times
From Jan 10, coinage February 22,
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