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Nov 12, 2019
VMS LEADERSHIP — From the Chair (2019)
Greetings, colleagues, from the first blog edition of Views! In these times of decreased staff and budgets, and increased workloads, I...


Nov 12, 2019
VMS LEADERSHIP — Get to Know Our Newest Steering Committee Members (2019)
Hi, I am the incoming Visual Materials Section member-at-large. I am the Senior Processing Archivist at the Harvard University Property...


Nov 12, 2019
IN DEPTH — Polaroids from Heaven: Developing Active Learning with Unconventional Visual Resources
A photograph of the Blessed Virgin Mary appearing on a rose petal, a Polaroid of unexplained religious symbols in the clouds, and an...


Nov 4, 2019
NEW IN PRINT — The Image of Whiteness: Contemporary Photography and Racialization
Daniel C. Blight (Editor). Photography — Analysis. “A unique study of art photography as a means to understand whiteness. In a time of...


Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison
Get Social — Tumblr. Lose yourself in this continuous delight of graphic materials selected by the staff of University of Wisconsin-Madison.


Nov 4, 2019
NEW IN PRINT — Documentary Photography Reconsidered: History, Theory and Practice
Michelle Bogre. Photography — Perspectives. “Documentary photography is undergoing an unprecedented transformation as it adapts to the...


Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Inward Outward Symposium
Education — Symposium. Hilversum, Netherlands. January 24-25, 2020. “Archives, assumed to be containers of memory, are vested with a...


Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Laura Aguilar Photographs
Acquisitions — Photography. The largest museum acquisition of Laura Aguilar’s photography, a cache of 35 photos produced during her...


Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings / Remembered Light & Landscapes
Exhibitions — Photography. Atlanta, Georgia. Oct. 19, 2019–Feb. 2, 2020 / October 17-December 21, 2019. Need a reason for a road trip?...
Nov 4, 2019
IN FOCUS — Guidelines for Processing Collections with Audiovisual Material
Education — Good to Know. Get some standards! New to Audiovisual processing or just curious on how other institutions handle these...
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