Where are all the people? How images of shelving reveal deeper problems in the way we think about archives
KyleLee-Crossett16 March 2017In the first year of my PhD programme, I had to present some early ideas about my research on the uses of diversity in archive and museum collections in London. At that point, I hadn’t decided which archives or museums my research would focus on, so I thought I would just find a few general pictures to put in the background.
Instead, I got a striking lesson in the power of visual representation of archives.