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Encountering the records of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Rochester and George Eastman Museum, Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, 2020.
In 2015, the George Eastman Museum (GEM) acquired the records of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography (MJIFDP), a project dedicated to funding long-term documentary projects from around the world, along with records created by the FiftyCrows Foundation (FCF). Originally a project of Mother Jones magazine, MJIFDP management shifted to the Fifty Crows Foundation until 2012, when operations ceased. While the MJIFDP’s photographs were transferred to GEM’s Department of Photography, the slides, promotional materials, and administrative files remained unprocessed in the museum’s archive. For this Master’s project I processed these records, created a finding aid to facilitate access, and wrote a critical analysis of the fund’s impact on, and placement within, a history of documentary photography and technological innovation in the field. The archive offers insight into significant millennial shifts in applications of, and attitudes about, photojournalism. From analog to digital practice, print to online publications, and notions about who gets to photograph and where, the materials reveal an important era of documentary photography
Contributor(s):
Rebecca Gourevitch - Author

Jacob W. Lewis - Thesis Advisor

Ken Fox - Thesis Advisor

Primary Item Type:
Thesis
Identifiers:
Local Call No. AS38.44
LCSH Documentary photography--Case studies.
LCNAF George Eastman Museum--Photograph collections.
LCNAF Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography.
Language:
English
First presented to the public:
7/20/2020
Originally created:
2020
Original Publication Date:
2020
Previously Published By:
University of Rochester
Place Of Publication:
Rochester, N.Y.
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 59, 15 pages
Illustrations - color illustrations
License Grantor / Date Granted:
Marcy Strong / 2020-07-20 10:42:05.758 ( View License )
Date Deposited
2020-07-20 10:42:05.758
Submitter:
Marcy Strong

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