This is most certainly a sign that the photographic arts are being lost and assumed duplicated because, "it is just a picture". There are so many works of art lost to us that sometimes these photographs is all we have left of them. I find it absolutely a mortal sin that of all places the V&A destroyed their entire collection citing that they were simply duplications and nothing more.
To lose the original owners photographs with notes of the history of an item is just heartbreaking especially if the item is gone. :( I really hope they actually digitized at the very least those notes. Franchesca : -----Original Message----- : From: [email protected] [mailto:h-costume- : [email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda Walton : Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:23 AM : To: [email protected] : Subject: [h-cost] Tate's national photographic archive 'rescued from skip' after : internal tipoff : : This news about the Tate's archive is a relief, but the article also : tells about the loss of the V&A's archive: read it and weep. : : http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/feb/23/tate-national- : photographic-archive-rescued?INTCMP=SRCH : : Linda Walton, : (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). : _______________________________________________ : h-costume mailing list : [email protected] : http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
