mzsupa5
2007-01-01 02:01:59 UTC
Well said Mike, In this case I hope something can be salvaged. I am
not optimistic that material of this type can survive on self
generated income alone and at least in the early days some sort of
funding or voluntary work will be needed to get things going. A
swift Lottery funding bid will be needed before all the cash gets
hoovered up to pay for the 2012 0lympics!! In a way I think material
like this may fare better in private hands than with commercial or
government organisations. The decision to call the skip often rests
with a uninterested clerk who would prefer to tell a researcher that
X no longer exists than dig through the dust to get it.
Tony Collins
not optimistic that material of this type can survive on self
generated income alone and at least in the early days some sort of
funding or voluntary work will be needed to get things going. A
swift Lottery funding bid will be needed before all the cash gets
hoovered up to pay for the 2012 0lympics!! In a way I think material
like this may fare better in private hands than with commercial or
government organisations. The decision to call the skip often rests
with a uninterested clerk who would prefer to tell a researcher that
X no longer exists than dig through the dust to get it.
Tony Collins
I believe this is not a question of economy (the returns expected
from thisor any such archive), but a question of preserving history. I
still stand bymy statement that we as photographers are recorders of history. We
don'tjust make money at it. The monetary value is temporary, the
historical valuelasts much, much longer. If this archive is worthless then all our
archivesare worthless.
Mike Shipman
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Mike Shipman
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