The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland aims to identify and preserve records of historical, social and cultural importance and make them available for the information, education and enjoyment of the public. It is the official place of deposit for public records in Northern Ireland.
The Deseronto Archives looks after documents, photographs and other materials relating to the town of Deseronto in eastern Ontario, Canada. Deseronto was a major centre for the lumber industry in the nineteenth century and the site of two Royal Flying Corps pilot training camps in the First World War.
Welcome, friends.
How important is the Commons initiative? Have a read of Philip Wolmuth’s article in the British Journal of Photography, and if your institution is interested in opening up its archives, follow these simple instructions for registering with the Commons.
Now for our photography curators’ Flickr favourites for the month.
Colin Harding has selected this photograph from the OSU Special Collections & Archives for:
… its surreal quality, the rigid, unnatural pose and the lack of expression on their faces. Why was it taken, I wonder? It reminds me of August Sander’s photograph of two boxers, taken in 1929.
Rebecca Smith has selected these photographs, again from the OSU Special Collections & Archives.
Both of these photographs appeal to me because they are spatially a little strange, and they look like manipulated or composite images. The loggers appear to be suspended in space, posing casually balanced on a perfect plane. The five worried children concertinaed onto a pony seem to occupy a different space to the tethered deer. It’s all a bit disconcerting and odd.
Odd indeed. We’ll have more Flickr favourites for you next month—and we hope to meet more friends on Flickr Commons in the very near future.