Global Audiovisual Archiving

Gelao, Sara

From the Archive, no. 3, vol. 7September 19, 2022<September 22, 2022

Global Audiovisual Archiving

by Sara Gelao

Sara Gelao reports on the Eye International Conference 2022, "Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices," where delegates discussed new initiatives to safeguard audiovisual heritage across geopolitical divides.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 7June 27, 2022<June 27, 2022

“A change from murder and mayhem”: UK City of Culture on Television

by Kat Pearson

Kat Pearson considers the role of television in Coventry's year as UK City of Culture, from BBC programming to local events that enabled residents to engage with the city's history through the TV archives.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 7April 22, 2022<May 4, 2022

Archive as Pulp: In and through Kağıthane

by Merve Ünsal

Merve Ünsal explores the neighborhood of Kagithane (House of Paper) in Istanbul, Turkey, which was formerly a hub of paper production. Ünsal examines the paper supply crisis in Turkey through the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, which is home to the Ottoman state archives.

From the Archive, no. 3, vol. 6July 6, 2021<July 7, 2021

The Ed Ruscha Streets of Los Angeles Project

by Mark Shiel

A collaborative team at the Getty Research Institute has been working to digitize and analyze the influential Los Angeles street photography of Ed Ruscha. Mark Shiel provides an overview of the project and discusses parallels between Ruscha’s photographs and LA cinema in the 1960s.

From the Archive, no. 5, vol. 2December 17, 2017<January 9, 2018

Moving Image Archives as Urban Palimpsest

by Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen

In this installment of our From the Archives section, Nicholas Avedisian-Cohen explores the history of the Echo Park Film Center and its relationship to the city of Los Angeles, suggesting that we can observe the process of urban change at work through the holdings of film archives.