Photographic Archives
Code
722051089
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
2
Teacher in charge
Sónia Casquiço Pereira
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Identify photographic processes and deterioration forms
b) Recognize photographs as document and information sources
c) Understand and frame the photographic documentation in the context of information sciences
d) Acquire skills of visual literacy
e) Design and implement a documentation and preservation plan in archival context, using the internationally recognized standards
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
1. Introduction
1.1. The structure of a photograph
1.2. Brief History of the development of photographic processes and deterioration forms
1.3. Photograph as document and information source
1.4. Photographic Archives in Portugal
2. Arrangement
2.1. Appraisal procedures
2.2. Observation and planning
2.2.1. Preparation of documentation and preservation plan
3. Description
3.1. What is the description of photography? Objectives; What to describe? information sources and specificities of photographs;
3.2. Instruments and standards Description
3.3. Indexing
4. Preservation
4.1. Environmental control
4.2. Storage room / Exhibition room
4.3. Conservation and Restoration Treatments
4.4. Housing
5. Diffusion and Public Access
5.1. Availability of documents for consultation
5.2. Digitalization
5.2.1. Preparation of a Digitalization project
6. Digital Archives
Bibliography
BOADAS, Joan, CASELLAS, Lluís-Esteve, Suquet, M. Angels Manual para la gestión de fondos y colleciones fotográficas, Girona: CCG Ediciones, 2001.
CHARBONNEAU, Normand, ROBERT, Mario La Gestion des Archives Photographiques. Presses de L Université du Québec: Québec, 2001.
PAVÃO, Luís Conservação de Colecções de Fotografia. Lisboa: Dinalivro, 1997
RITZENTHALER, Mary Lynn, OConnor, Diane Photographs: archival care and Management, Chicago: The Society of American Archivists, 2006.
SÁNCHEZ VIGIL, Juan - El documento fotográfico : historia, usos y aplicaciones. Gijón: Ediciones Trea, 2006.
Teaching method
The course will be taught mostly in theoretical sessions, illustrated with projections in the Microsoft Power Point program, as well as photographic documents in the classroom. There will be three practice sessions of 2 hours each for practical exercises of description
Evaluation method
Test (50%) and a practical work (50%) that analyze critically a documentation and preservation plan of a photographic collection