The Colonial Legacies of the Digital Archive: The Arnold Lupson Photographic Collection
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Abstract
This article explores the transformative ef fects of digitization on photographs by tracing the history of one series of photographic images, the Arnold Lupson collection, at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta. As Lupson’s photographs of First Nations peoples, originally taken in the 1920s, moved through dif ferent hands and archival grids, the meanings attached to the photographs were reworked and renegotiated, and remnants of these earlier interventions continue to haunt the digital databases that now bear the cultural weight of these photographs. It is ar gued that in order to fully grasp these colonial legacies, we need to be able to reconnect the material history of the photographs more overtly to their virtual surrogates. RESUME Ce texte explore les effets transformateurs de la numerisation sur les photographies en examinant l’histoire d’une serie d’images photographiques, la collection Arnold Lupson, deposee aux Archives Glenbow a Calgary, en Alberta. Les photographies de Lupson, qui ont ete prises dans les annees 1920, montrent des peuples des Premieres Nations. Au cours des annees, des personnes travaillant selon differents courants archivistiques ont laisse leur marque sur les descriptions de ces photographies, qui ont ete retravaillees et modifiees. Des vestiges de ces premiers efforts descriptifs paraissent toujours dans les bases de donnees numeriques qui portent maintenant la marque culturelle de ces photographies. Le texte conclut que pour mieux comprendre cet heritage colonial, nous devons etre capables de faire le lien plus ouvertement entre l’histoire materielle de ces photographies et leurs copies virtuelles.
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