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Rundbrief Fotografie
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The Technology of Cameras and Photography in Journalistic
Applications: 1945 to 1980 (Part V)
Initially, photographers had to make do with photographic
devices that were left over from the war, and their right to
practice their profession in Germany was considerably limited by
the few bodies of the press to which the occupying forces had
given licenses. With the reappearance of publications, demand grew
for equipment that could cope with the increasing speed of
journalism. The period from 1950 to 1980 brought new features to
cameras, expanding ranges of focal lengths and apertures in lens
design, and increasing efficiency of flash units; later, film
speeds were increased to the degree that journalistic pictures
could be taken without influencing the atmosphere of the event.
The small SLR camera with an extensive range of accessories became
the photographer’s most important working tool; a motorized
film advance significantly increased opportunities for capturing
the motif.
Nachkriegsausstattung - Neues Fotogerät und mehr Licht
für Bildreporter - Reporterkameras aus Japan - Schnelle
Objektive - schnelle Filme - schnelle Entwicklung - Pressebilder
nur gelegentlich in Farbe - Neue große und kleine Kameras
für Reporter - Objektive mit Blickwinkel für jede
Situation - Presse weiterhin Schwarz auf Weiß und mit wenig
Farbe - Einstellhilfen, Automatisierungen und elektronische
Steuerungen im Kamerabau - Anmerkungen
Archive of Places, I: The New Collecting Scheme of the Print
and Drawing Collection of the Swiss National Library
The Print and Drawing Collection of the Swiss National Library
holds not only a comprehensive collection of photographic
portraits made up of some 30,000 prints and 3,000 negatives, but
also, with approximately 1.4 million prints and 400,000 negatives,
one of the largest collections of landscapes and city view
photographs from 1860 to today; there are, however, gaps in the
period after 1945. Next to this weak spot, two other aspects were
decisive in devising a broadly based research project called
‘Archive of Places’: the problematic physical condition
of parts of the holdings, and the fact that, in regards to
landscape photography and photography of places, the current
collecting scheme exclusively followed the structure of the
historically grown collection.
Sammlungsgeschichte - Neukonzipierung - Vernetzung -
Anmerkungen
Archive of Places, II: Collecting Strategies for a Photograph
Archive on Spatial Development
Cities and landscapes of Switzerland have undergone profound
changes since the mid-20th Century. The urban sprawl in the
midlands and in the Alps has lead to the formation of new urban
landscapes. Agglomerations and metropolitan regions superimpose
the traditional territorial structures. Institutions that deal
with the visual documentation of landscape and urban areas face
the question of how they can represent these transformations in
their collections. Ulrich Görlich and Meret Wandeler, both
from the Institute for Contemporary Art Research at the
Zürich University of the Arts, have developed within the
research project ‘Archive of Places’ strategies for
collecting photographic documentation of processes of spatial
transformation. The project was supported by the Swiss National
Science Foundation, and the partner was the Print and Drawing
Collection of the Swiss National Library, which holds an extensive
photograph collection of city views from all of the country’s
cantons. The collection covers the period from 1860 to today, with
gaps for the period after 1945. The outcome of the project
consists of two exemplary photograph collections of territorial
transformations in two Swiss cultural regions: in Schlieren ZH, a
metropolitan community in the midlands, and in the Upper Engadine,
a tourist area in the mountains. The results of this research
project form one of the foundations for the further development of
the collecting scheme for the collection of photographs of city
views in the Print and Drawing Collection of the Swiss National
Library.
Digitalisierung - Auswahlkriterien (Räumliche
Zusammenhänge - Nachvollziehbarkeit des Aufnahmestandpunktes
- Informationsdichte - Offener Bildraum - Technische
Qualitäten) - Dokumentation durch die Akteure vor Ort -
Modellhafte Sammlungen Schlieren und Oberengadin - Bildserien als
Lektürevorschläge - Anmerkungen
Archive of Places, III: Conservation and Restoration of Prints
by the Charnaux Brothers
The ‘Archive of Places’ project was initiated by the
Print and Drawing Collection of the Swiss National Library; with
support from Memoriav, it covered a period of four years, from
January 2008 to February 2011. The goal of this major undertaking
was the treatment of a selection of more than 3,000 prints from
the holdings, including photographs by Adolphe Braun, the Charnaux
brothers, Photoglob, Schroeder, and Albert Steiner, but also by
Giorgio Sommer and Fred Boissonas. Numerous photographic processes
that cover the entire history of photography were encountered:
these include salted paper prints, Aristo paper, collodion
printing-out papers, Photochrom prints, and gelatine silver
bromide papers.
Anmerkungen
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