Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives

When Google announced in November 2008 that it was to host online one of the world’s largest corpus of photographic images thanks to its collaboration with the Life magazine picture collection, it also said something, almost incidentally, about the state of the archive in the digital age. This essay...

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Main Authors: Dalziell, T., Genoni, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6729
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description When Google announced in November 2008 that it was to host online one of the world’s largest corpus of photographic images thanks to its collaboration with the Life magazine picture collection, it also said something, almost incidentally, about the state of the archive in the digital age. This essay examines the meeting between the archive and technology that the Google publicity announces by focusing on a relatively minor subset of the Life images digitised as a result of this partnership. It does so by foregrounding ‘user-builders’ and their roles in both making meaning from digital archives and making digital archives meaningful.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-67292017-09-13T14:35:42Z Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives Dalziell, T. Genoni, Paul popular archives digital archives Life picture collection phenomenology Google user-builders stock photographs When Google announced in November 2008 that it was to host online one of the world’s largest corpus of photographic images thanks to its collaboration with the Life magazine picture collection, it also said something, almost incidentally, about the state of the archive in the digital age. This essay examines the meeting between the archive and technology that the Google publicity announces by focusing on a relatively minor subset of the Life images digitised as a result of this partnership. It does so by foregrounding ‘user-builders’ and their roles in both making meaning from digital archives and making digital archives meaningful. 2015 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6729 10.1177/1354856514560298 Sage fulltext
spellingShingle popular archives
digital archives
Life picture collection
phenomenology
Google
user-builders
stock photographs
Dalziell, T.
Genoni, Paul
Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title_full Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title_fullStr Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title_full_unstemmed Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title_short Google comes to Life: researching digital photographic archives
title_sort google comes to life: researching digital photographic archives
topic popular archives
digital archives
Life picture collection
phenomenology
Google
user-builders
stock photographs
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6729