Photographs and manuscripts: working in the archive

Dever, M

Photographs and manuscripts: working in the archive

Dever, M

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Archives and Manuscripts, 2014, 42 (3), pp. 282 - 294
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dever, M https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-8646	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Archives and Manuscripts, 2014, 42 (3), pp. 282 - 294	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0157-6895	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/116026
dc.description.abstract	© 2014, © 2014 Australian Society of Archivists. This essay opens out a series of questions concerning matter and materiality in the age of the digital via engagement with the literary papers of Australian writer Eve Langley (1904–74), held in the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Among those papers is a single black and white snapshot labelled ‘The Manuscript Cupboard, 1970’, which shows three shelves of a household cupboard filled with exercise books, folders and paper-wrapped parcels. The same collection also contains a series of colour snapshots showing Langley’s manuscripts arranged in a variety of tableaux laid out across her untended lawn. That Langley should have first taken and then preserved such photos is perhaps not surprising given her deep attachment to material conditions of writing and, in particular, to manuscripts and paper. For Langley, to write was quite simply to inhabit paper and she framed the experience of writing as one of immersion, not just in ideas and words, but literally in paper. Framed by a consideration of the anxieties around materiality provoked by the emergence of digital technologies, this essay explores paper’s presence as an integral dimension of the experience of being in the archive and working with original materials.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Archives and Manuscripts	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/01576895.2014.956322	en_US
dc.title	Photographs and manuscripts: working in the archive	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	42	en_US
utslib.for	2103 Historical Studies	en_US
utslib.for	0807 Library and Information Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Teaching and Learning)
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pubs.issue	3	en_US
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Abstract:

© 2014, © 2014 Australian Society of Archivists. This essay opens out a series of questions concerning matter and materiality in the age of the digital via engagement with the literary papers of Australian writer Eve Langley (1904–74), held in the Mitchell Library in Sydney. Among those papers is a single black and white snapshot labelled ‘The Manuscript Cupboard, 1970’, which shows three shelves of a household cupboard filled with exercise books, folders and paper-wrapped parcels. The same collection also contains a series of colour snapshots showing Langley’s manuscripts arranged in a variety of tableaux laid out across her untended lawn. That Langley should have first taken and then preserved such photos is perhaps not surprising given her deep attachment to material conditions of writing and, in particular, to manuscripts and paper. For Langley, to write was quite simply to inhabit paper and she framed the experience of writing as one of immersion, not just in ideas and words, but literally in paper. Framed by a consideration of the anxieties around materiality provoked by the emergence of digital technologies, this essay explores paper’s presence as an integral dimension of the experience of being in the archive and working with original materials.

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