Colleagues--
Below is a message from our colleague at the KHI,
Costanza Caraffa. Please feel free to distribute or post to anyone who
might be interested.
With thanks,
Jenni
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Jenni Rodda, Curator
Visual Resources Collections
Institute of Fine Arts
1 East 78th Street
New York, NY 10075
212/992-5872 voice, 212/992-5807 fax
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Dear Colleagues,
with this message I would like to call your
attention to an initiative of our Institute: the "Florence Declaration.
Recommendations for the Preservation of Analogue Photo Archives".
The aim of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz -
Max-Planck-Institut in issuing this Declaration in German, English,
Italian, French and Polish is to promote the fundamental significance of
analogue photo archives for the future of the humanities and social
sciences. Only the integration of analogue and digital formats can
guarantee the sound conservation of the photographic heritage for future
studies and at the same time creatively fulfil the potential of digital
instruments.
Analogue photo archives are an integral part of our cultural
heritage. The purpose of the "Florence Declaration" is to raise public
awareness of this. It is aimed not only at photographic collections,
university and scientific research, but also at decision-makers at the
social and political levels.
For this we need your support! Every photographic collection and
research project on photography is concerned. As an article in the
Guardian of last week showed (http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/23/tate-national-photographic-archive-rescued), the topic of photo archives is still a burning question and we have to act now.
The Declaration (attached to this message) can be subscribed with an email to [log in to unmask]
or
through the internet pages of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in
Florenz. Here you will also find a regularly updated List of
Subscribers. For further information consult the website: http://www.khi.fi.it/en/photothek/florencedeclaration/index.html.
Please subscribe and contribute to the diffusion of the "Florence Declaration".
Thank you and best wishes,
Costanza Caraffa
For more information on the Florentine Photothek, its projects and publications:
http://www.khi.fi.it/en/photothek/index.html
http://www.khi.fi.it/en/photothek/projekte/index.html
http://www.khi.fi.it/en/publikationen/imandorli/mandorli_Photo_Archives/index.html
Dr. Costanza Caraffa
Leiterin / Direttrice
Photothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz
- Max-Planck-Institut
Palazzo Grifoni Budini Gattai
Via dei Servi 51, I-50122 Florenz
Tel. 0039 - 055 - 216707
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Instituts- und Postadresse:
Via G. Giusti 44, I-50121 Florenz
www.khi.fi.it
http://expo.khi.fi.it/gallery/cimelia-photographica
http://www.khi.fi.it/en/photothek/projekte/index.html
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