Lesson 14 - Caroline Webber

Lesson 14

Caroline Webber

Unfortunately I missed this weeks class due to illness but got a copy of a classmates notes.

Caroline Webber is from the National Archives of Australia and she gave a talk on the role of photography in The Archives. We did have an excursion to the archives for History of Photography and i enjoyed having a look at what they do especially the old film photographs. Photography plays such an important role in remembering our history.

Webiste: http://www.naa.gov.au/
On the website there is a section called Photosearch in which you can search through all the digital images that they have.

- There are arounf 3 million images in the Archives
- Each year the hold exhibitions some are perminent, others temorary or touring.
- The photographers that work at the Archives create high resolution images of historical work. They also take photographs of important events at the Archives such as exhibition openings.
- They also work to ensure that the collection is well kept and preserved as well as accesable tp the general public.
- Digital scans of old photographs