![]() ![]() ![]() But to which degree does the archival authority of an archival record still depend in its material physical embodiment? The other, somewhat opposing approach is to preserve medium-based memory as information, up to the extreme point of view that the material body might be abolished after its essential transformation into its pure binary information units: "We no longer collect the carriers, clay tablets, books or floppies, just the information". The one cares for preserving the physical, especially chemical and electro-magnetic properties of the physical and chemical storage medium (all media are material in the first place). There are two approaches to the conservation of analogue photography. ![]() The photographic punctum corresponds with the indexical temporal momentum, but there is no "still photography" in digital representation. While the analogue print is embedded in physical time, the digital image reveals its processual character and is thus generated by its own internal temporal mechanism (oeprative algorithms) it has to be re-generated out of computer storage. Even if it is subject to physical and chemical entropy, the analogue photographic print remarkably endures, while its digital version is a function of data arrays which need to be electrically powered or even refreshed permanently. Phenomenologically its image quality (provided that the sampling rate has been sufficient) looks more or less like the analogue original, but chrono-technically it embodies a totally different essentiality. Let us look at a digitised photography in a media-archaeological way. Still time? Analogue daysand photographic in/formation ![]()
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