After nearly 175 years in French archives, one copy -- in French on woven paper, with red wax seals and a flourish of green silk cord -- vanished in 1988, along with dozens of other documents.
One that got away was back in my hands!" The search evidently led to Roach snooping around another archive (one many of us depend on) — the one his mother kept for him.
Photo historian Martin Harrison worked with Bailey on his huge 1999 retrospective book Archive One and has curated several major exhibitions of his work.
I can think of two shows I saw in New York that had a major impact on how I was thinking about the archive: one was WACK!, which was the huge feminist survey at PS1, and the other was Archive Fever, which was at the International Center of Photography.
(He is published by Dalkey Archive, one of the small independent presses foreign writers depend on).
So she returned to the Paley Center archives one Tuesday, when the building was closed to the public.
It reminded me of another letter I had come across in the archive, one responding to a 1981 essay about pornography by Andrea Dworkin.
In some ways, the Inbox Zero system is just a game of whack-a-mail — as soon as you reply and archive one thread, up pops another.
Their accounts are in secret reports in Soviet-era archives, one of which offered the most tantalizing hint: a single phrase in the recollection of the chief killer that seemed to suggest where the two bodies might have been deposited.
Laurent Dubois: I often think of Haitian music as a kind of remarkable archive, one that keeps traces of the process of deportation, slavery, and revolution that created the nation.
Repeatedly, this superbly intelligent biography falls upon empty archives, archives one wants to believe were shrewdly emptied by Fitzgerald or by her three children (who wants biographers spelunking in family darknesses?), but which one fears, rather, were never full to begin with, because little was ever said, let alone recorded.
