Research and Value-enhancement of Gaston Bourquin’s Photographic Archive, Museo de la Ciudad

Authors

  • Luis Priamo TAREA-Instituto de Investigación sobre el Patrimonio Cultural (IIPC), Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (ANBA). Argentina
  • Verónica Tell Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). TAREA-Instituto de Investigación sobre el Patrimonio Cultural (IIPC), Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM). Argentina

Keywords:

photographic archives, Argentina, Museo de la Ciudad, Gaston Bourquin

Abstract

Gaston Bourquin (Switzerland, 1890-Argentina, 1950) was one of the main photographers and postcard editors in Argentina in the first half of the last century. His archive is preserved at the Museo de la Ciudad (Buenos Aires, Argentina) since the 80’s. This article aims to present the survey and research on the archive, and to offer an account of its particularities as well as the ones of its location. The project was launched as part of the 2017’s accord between San Martín University -on the part of TAREA-Instituto de Investigaciones
sobre el Patrimonio Cultural- and Museo de la Ciudad, with the aim of promoting collaboration for investigation, cataloguing and setting rules of intervention on its heritage. Project’s initial stages have brought out a photographic survey of the collection and the development of a database. Furthermore, an exhibition was organized with a significant selection of Bourquin’s photographic and documental material.

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References

AA.VV., Imágenes de Buenos Aires. Fotografías del Archivo de la Dirección Municipal de Paseos y otras colecciones 1915-1940, Buenos Aires, Fundación Antorchas, 1997.

PRIAMO Luis, “ʻQuerido Señor Pi’. Cartas de Gaston Bourquin”, Fotomundo, núm. 313, Mayo de 1994, pp. 74-78.

TELL Verónica, “Gastón Bourquin: paisajista y editor”, Memoria del VI Congreso de Historia de la Fotografía en la Argentina, Buenos Aires, Comité Ejecutivo Permanente, 2001, pp. 63-65.

Published

2019-12-31

How to Cite

Priamo, L., & Tell, V. (2019). Research and Value-enhancement of Gaston Bourquin’s Photographic Archive, Museo de la Ciudad. Revista Electrónica De Fuentes Y Archivos, (10), 193–201. Retrieved from https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/refa/article/view/33161

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Section

Archivos / Bibliotecas / Museos / Colecciones