Papers by Francis G Maitland
Using Allan Sekula's inspirational text 'The Body and the Archive' I interrogate some of the ways... more Using Allan Sekula's inspirational text 'The Body and the Archive' I interrogate some of the ways in which photography in the nineteenth century was used to taxonomise the human body, strengthening and substantiating notions of difference and otherness in colonial and Imperial society for the next hundred years.
If the purpose of writing is to record, how can other objects be textual?" When I was a child, my... more If the purpose of writing is to record, how can other objects be textual?" When I was a child, my parents -being around the age that I am now, and just as inclined toward a similarly neglectful attitude to record keeping -kept all of our family photographs in a large, thick-sided cardboard box. This, in effect, was our family archive, or at least was as close to a family archive as we are still to get. Within it were kept every single photograph that my parents had ever taken since they had been together. As a child this provided no end of fascination to me about the lineage of my own family. From a very young age I did not feel that I belonged in this world and the box of photographs, which was almost as high as me, this archive, was all the proof that I needed of this…
How is digital technology changing the way that history-makers and public audiences
encounter, un... more How is digital technology changing the way that history-makers and public audiences
encounter, understand and use archives? How do digital technologies affect ideas of
ownership?
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Papers by Francis G Maitland
encounter, understand and use archives? How do digital technologies affect ideas of
ownership?
encounter, understand and use archives? How do digital technologies affect ideas of
ownership?