Photographs and archives are participants in and products of discursive practices: photographs configure the meaning of place, and archives shape the meaning of photographs. How can we use the notion of place better to understand photographic archives as both defined by and empowered by intersecting discursive practices? In this paper, I consider photographs of place, as place, in place, and out of place in archives as a way to investigate photographs as primary sources from a perspective informed by geographical concerns, archival theory, and institutional practice.
Joan Schwartz is Professor Emerita in the History of Photography & Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture at Queen’s University, Ontario and currently Visiting Leverhulme Professor in the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her career has combined the roles of historical geographer, archival theorist, and photographic historian. As co-editor of Picturing Place (with James R. Ryan) and of Archives, Records, and Power (with the late Terry Cook), her work focusses on photography and the geographical imagination and on archives as spaces of power. She is currently completing a four-year project, "Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889," funded by SSHRC.
Photographs of place, as place, in place, and out of place in archives
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