Episode 72: The Role of Photography in Archives
For those of you who head the call of the Archives: this episode is for you. We’ve got archive fever, y’all! Your favorite BYWAP hosts are pulling out all the stops with today's Article Discussion as we dive deeply into a love letter to the hallowed halls of stored memories. Archives, especially photographs as both archival material and The Archive, have a lot to teach us about what we see, how we feel, and why we remember. Join us as we wax poetically about boxes full of pictures, argue about the meaning of long-dead philosophers, and celebrate art in all its documentable forms.
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Sources:
Enwezor O. (2008). Archive fever: uses of the document in contemporary art. New York, N.Y.: International Center of Photography. Retrieved from: https://monoskop.org/images/c/cf/Enwezor_Okwui_Archive_Fever_Uses_of_the_Document_in_Contemporary_Photography_2008.pdf
Farago J. (2019). Okwui Enwezor, Curator Who Remapped Art World, Dies at 55. In The New York Times. Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/obituaries/okwui-enwezor-dead.html
Wikipedia contributors (n.d.). Okwui Enwezor. In Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okwui_Enwezor
