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Archives
An archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. Professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities.
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Dipping into the archive is always an interesting, if sometimes unsettling, proposition. It often begins with anxiety, with the fear that the thing you want won't surface. But ultimately the process is a little like tapping into the unconscious, and can bring with it the ambivalent gratification of rediscovering forgotten selves.
Rather than making new pictures why can't I just recycle some of these old ones? Claim "found" photographs from among my boxes? And have this gesture signify "resistan
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― Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays
― Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays
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Listen, we've always been living through something. Some warmonger has always been waging a war somewhere. The thing is how close it feels to you today. If you get a little overwhelmed, visit your local library and spend some time with the archives. Look at the old photos, letters and stories. Go and speak to your elders. You'll find evidence of hope, joy, dancing and singing through the grief. It is exactly this joy that holds us as we show up for the difficult work that is world-making.
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