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Announcing an SAA Workshop in New York City: Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections

Sunday, February 19, 2012 11:38 PM | Anonymous
Society of American Archivists Workshop: Visual Literacy for Photograph Collections

Details:
Monday, May 21, 2012
9 am- 5pm
The National Archives at New York City
New York, NY

Workshop Description
This workshop provides methods to gain information from photographs and to understand how this information can be applied in a practical manner to help manage, arrange, and describe collections more effectively and for researchers to extract information. If you’ve attended SAA’s “Understanding Photographs” workshop, this is your next step! This workshop adds more concepts that are important for understanding the intellectual and physical nature of photographs. Incorporating these concepts into daily practice can have practical and economical benefit for the archivist and provide better service to the researcher. Learn to understand the photograph as artifact,visual literacy, and their application to photograph collection management and research uses.

Upon completing this workshop, you’ll:

  • Have examined visual literacy in-depth and learned to apply this information in practice always to arrange and describe photograph collections;
  • Know about the importance of the concept of object and image in collection management and the difference between physical order and intellectual order;
  • Comprehend the intellectual and social nature of photographs;
  • Understand the photographic messages, the complex collective life of photographs, and how the photographic information can be obscured or changed over time; and
  • Be able to apply this knowledge to managing photo collections to save time and money.
  • Who should attend? Archivists or others who work with photograph collections and researchers wishing to understand more about finding information contained in photographs. Archivists or others who want to build on the knowledge gained from the introductory SAA “Understanding Photographs” workshop.
Attendance limited to 30.

More information and a link to registration is available at the following link:


The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York is proud to serve as a co-sponsor of this event. ART members receive a discount of $25 off the early bird registration price by entering code VLPC25NY during online registration.

Thanks to the National Archives at New York City for graciously hosting this event. Please direct all questions regarding the workshop to the Society of American Archivists.


Questions? communications@nycarchivists.org

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