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On the Exhibition of Original Transparencies at the City Museum
of Graz
The exhibition ‘Realities. Graz around 1900’ in the
City Museum of Graz shows around 120 almost exclusively
black-and-white backlit transparencies from 1880 to 1920.
‘These transparencies, once teaching aids from the Graz City
Archives, allow us to decipher what real life was like in Graz
around 1900. The slides are transparent in a double sense: they
constitute transparent images in a medium (photography) that is,
at the same time, so incomparably permeable for reality.’ The
slides, of the formats 8.5 x 8.5 and 9 x 12 cm, are shown
individually and in groups in backlit frames that were made
specially for this exhibition. This form of presentation is a
novelty, since these types of slides have so far rather been
projected to a screen. By means of enlargement of the original
image, projection not only provides for an illusion, but it also
delivers information to many people at the same time for the
limited duration of a lecture. As in a mosaic, individual
pictorial and verbal components are joined to form a whole. With
its mode of showing the slides, the City Museum of Graz achieves a
paradigm shift in their viewing-slides once used for projection
are now backlit objects: a breakthrough in the wall into a
different world.
Technologien - Beleuchtungsarten (Leuchtstofflampen - EL-Folien -
LED Flächenlicht) - Rahmenkonstruktion - Anmerkungen
On Preservation and Use: The Museum of Communication in Berne
and its Photographic Archive
This article examines the emergence and growth of a typical
image archive within the context of a museum. It points to the
influence that the changing approach to preservation of objects
has on their attributed cultural and historical significance. It
reviews a by now ten-year-old project of preventive conservation
and preservation that was begun during the period of debate about
the transition from analogue to digital long-term safeguarding.
The hybrid approach that the museum chose to follow in 1998 has
proven successful. The experience gathered since then is a sound
starting point for the evaluation of further solutions that have
been developed in the meantime.
Der Fotobestand: Interessen hinterlassen Spuren - Das
fotografische Sicherungsprojekt - Ein neuer Blick auf die Inhalte
- Der Film- und Videobestand - Grundlagen für die Zukunft -
Anmerkung - Bezugsquellen
Archaeological Trace-hunting from Above: Aerial Archaeological
Photography in Saxony
Aerial photography is one of the most effective methods to
locate previously unknown archaeological sites. Observations made
from a height of 300 to 500 meters differ significantly from those
possible at ground level. A large distance provides an overview
and allows for the recognition of coherences that is not possible
with up-close observation. The two most important tasks of aerial
archaeological photography are photographic documentation of
visible archaeological monuments and the search for and
registration of underground remains. The growth characteristics of
plants help detect invisible archaeological remains by creating a
tracing of different soil structures on the ground surface. With
some experience, whole archaeological landscapes can be deduced
from the air.
Archäologische Luftbilder: ein fotografisches Spezialarchiv -
Prospektion: die Suche nach dem Unbekannten - Der Blick vom Himmel
- Der richtige Zeitpunkt entscheidet - Mit dem Fliegen allein ist
es nicht getan - Zerstörungsfreie Archäologie: die
schonende Variante - Eine Methode mit Geschichte -
Luftbeobachtungen weltweit: vom Schreibtisch aus - Literatur
Three Viewpoints on Picture Media: Studying Photography at the
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Dealing with photographs on a professional level is expected in
many work fields today. Within its broad spectrum of courses, the
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam offers three quite
different courses of studies that deal with photography: a course
in Design, European Media Sciences (in co-operation with the
University of Potsdam), and Information Sciences courses
(archiving, library and media as well as information and
documentation). Lessons for communication designers aim primarily
at developing and training an understanding of the nature of
images. The course European Media Sciences emphasizes a critical
aesthetic practice, which is encountered in photography and other
means of expression. Archivists, librarians, and documentation
specialists are more concerned with how photographs can be
preserved in the long-term and be prepared for research and
efficient access.
Design-Studiengang - Europäische Medienwissenschaft und
Fotografie - Informationswissenschaftliche Studiengänge -
Fazit
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