Dodo, lame duck or phoenix, part 2? Can or should we preserve a slide library for research?

Author:

Godfrey Jenny

Abstract

In part one of this article, published in vol. 39, no. 3 2014, I described how the History and Theory of Art and Design Slide Library at Cardiff is to be reinvented as a visual resources collection by being put to new and creative uses. Here in part two I consider possible arguments for safeguarding at least one exemplar slide library to be preserved intact and exactly as it was when used for art school lectures. The arguments put forward are derived from the Florence Declaration to which ARLIS/UK & Ireland is a recent signatory. Were the arguments successful in persuading the art and design and library communities that such a collection should be preserved? I end by profiling the set of circumstances I believe would need to co-exist before any institution would find such a project to be practically, financially, culturally and intellectually viable.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Reference31 articles.

1. Canyonlights world art image bank, accessed 10 May 2014, http://www.canyonlights.com/themanchestermet.html

2. ‘Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History’, New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, accessed 3 May 2014, www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/events/photoarchives.htm. Costanza Caraffa, email message to author, 20 Aug. 2013. Caraffa, director of the Photothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut, is a founder member of the Florence Declaration, makes it clear that the Declaration is available to be used in various contexts, ‘of course you can use the arguments of the Florence Declaration for slides and other forms of analogue photography – actually one could change a few words and adapt the Florence Declaration to manuscripts, archival documents, etc etc.’

3. VRA-L Archives, accessed 10 Feb. 2014, http://hstserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?Al=indl312&L=VRA-L. To read all relevant posts on this subject search the VRA-L archives in December 2013 for the following message threads VRA and the Florence Declaration (1 message), VRA and the Florence Declaration (lengthy message) (5 messages), VRA and the Florence Declaration and the historiography of Slide Collections (3 messages).

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