I was proud to deliver the opening keynote for the 2023 Museums+Tech conference this year. It was a good chance to check in and report back on where we're at with the Flickr Foundation, and to comment on the not-necessarily-good proliferation of thin GLAM data online.
MCG-Tech Keynote, 23 Nov 2023.pdf
16. “The virality of the image has spooked its
31-year-old creator, a Chicago construction
worker who told BuzzFeed Newshe was
high on drugs when he had the idea.”
38. “As a documentarist I understood
that it was my job to generate
for future researchers the raw
materials they would need in order
to tell the stories of the kind of
people who down the ages
historians have tended to neglect.”
Daniel Meadows
57. Black and white long deep
focus overhead grainy 1940s
shot of an infant girl lying
down on her side in the
middle of the forest on
ground covered in small
plants.
58. Black and white long deep
focus overhead grainy 1940s
shot of an infant girl lying
down on her side in the
middle of the forest on
ground covered in small
plants.
59. Boy Playing Marbles, Java, 1938, by Gotthard Schuh Black and white grainy 1938 full shot of an Indonesian
boy with buzz-cut hair holding a small marble in his
hand and stretching his leg and arm to the back,
almost about to throw the marble on the stone floor.
He’s wearing a white, oversized t-shirt and one of his
knees is on the ground as he is staring at his side. The
location of the photo is Java, Indonesia.