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We Preserve and Organize Sources |
Cataloguing and Preservation of Documents |
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The
Documentary Heritage program is in charge
of organizing, classifying and cataloguing the
existing documents in the institutional archives
of the human rights organizations that comprise
the program, as well as our own archives that
have been received as donations or produced in
our office. At the same time, the program collaborates
in recuperating private archives and making them
accessible for public consultation. |
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Cataloguing and Preservation of Testimonies |
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The
Oral Archive of Memoria Abierta catalogues and preserves-
in accordance with international standards- the interviews
realized by the Oral Archive of protagonists from our
country's recent past.
The testimonies (which are stored in a space that has
the adequate temperature, humidity and security for
their correct preservation and conservation) are catalogued
according to categories
(only available in Spanish) that allow for access to
the voices and experiences of different social actors,
and shed light on the different dimensions and practices
through which the repressive politics of State terrorism
are articulated. |
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Digitalisation of the CONADEP Collection Photographs |
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During the year 2003 we incorporated into the archive
more than two thousand images that the CONADEP took
in 1984. The photographs, taken by photographer Enrique
Shore, were taken during the project of recognition
carried out nation-wide by the CONADEP to confirm the
denouncement of the use of certain places as clandestine
detention centers.
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Incorporation of Photography Collections |
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Collections of Other Institutions
The
photographic archive includes collections from institutions
taht work with Memoria Abierta and others that come
to us in the form of direct donations or through third
parties. Some of them are: CeDinCi (Center for Documentation
and Research on the Culture of Leftists in Argentina),
Argra (Association of Graphic Reporters in the Republic
of Argentina), and the newspapers Pagina/12, El Cronista
Comercial, La Razon and Noticias.
The collections approach an ample historic period that,
although it focuses on Argentina's recent past, extends
throughout the political history of Argentina. |
Personal Collections
Personal archives permit us to
complete the portrayal of situations and perspectives
that press and institutional or formal photography
do not approach. For that reason we include in the
archive collections that have been facilitated by
family members of the disappeared, photographers,
and general collectors. Among them are the Adeline
de Alaye Collection (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo)
and the Hector
Puchi Vázquez Collection (Photographer
from El Descamisado and the newspaper Noticias). |
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