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• 15 jan 2015

  Lausanne | Geneva

  Call for papers - History

  Reflecting the World

  Museums and collections of visual and sound documentation around 1900

  The spread of photography, the invention of cinema, and the development of sound recording devices around the end of the 19^th century engendered the creation of a large volume of still and moving images, as well as sounds registered from across the world. At the time, various institutions were established in order to collect, archive, and highlight these materials, so as to preserve visual and auditory traces of history, geography, and all the social phenomena stemming from particular regions or states, or even the entire world.  It concerns, for example, documentary photography museums which arose from local projects in France, Swiss and Belgium; the Archives de la Planète, created by the banker Albert Kahn; the project of Boleslas Matuszewski for a repository of historical cinematography; or the earliest, globally-directed sound archives, set up in Vienna and Berlin.

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