archive

For several years now, the public organisation After Silence has been searching for, purchasing and researching orphaned archives – photographs and documents that have lost both their owners and their...

Private archives, meticulously preserved within the personal belongings of authors or their families, represent an invaluable resource for the study of architectural photography. I would like to highlight a few...

Perhaps the most adventurous and precarious source of materials is the grey market, including antique fairs and online auctions. After socialist state institutions transitioned into the capitalist economy, much of...