Coming to Terms with Photographs: Descriptive Standards, Linguistic "Othering," and the Margins of Archivy

Authors

  • Joan M. Schwartz

Author Biography

Joan M. Schwartz

Joan M. Schwartz is Senior Photography Specialist at the National Archives of Canada, where she has worked in photography acquisition and research since 1977. She is currently a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellow in the Department of Art at Queen’s University, where she teaches courses in the History of Photography and Society. She is Co-editor (with Terry Cook) of "Archives, Records, and Power," two, double-thematic issues of Archival Science (2002) and (with James R. Ryan) of Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination (2003). Her current research interests focus on photography and the making of early modern Canada, and on theoretical issues relating to archives and memory.

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Published

2002-01-01

How to Cite

Schwartz, Joan M. 2002. “Coming to Terms With Photographs: Descriptive Standards, Linguistic ‘Othering,’ and the Margins of Archivy”. Archivaria 54 (January):142-71. https://archivaria.dev.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12861.

Issue

Archivaria 54 (Fall 2002)

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Counterpoint

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