ARTS2090 Photographic Essay

I am responding to the material:

""[C]ivilization has been dominated at different stages by various media of communication such as clay, papyrus, parchment, and paper produced first from rags and then from wood. Each medium has its significance for the type of monopoly of knowledge which will be built and which will destroy the conditions suited to creative thought and be displaced by a new medium with its peculiar type of monopoly of knowledge." (Innis, Harold, The Press: A neglected factor in the economic history of the twentieth century. London: Oxford University Press1949, p. 5).

What differences do different archives make? What is the relationship between particular archives and the ways of living they allow/make possible?
What kinds of authority do particular archives assist or challenge?

All photographs are the creative property of Katie Rorison. 2014.