Event Lectures and Symposia Photography and Folklife: Fieldwork Documentation and Building the Archive Event has been rescheduled

Date and Location

Part of Benjamin A. Botkin Folklife Lectures

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Carl Fleischhauer is one of America’s leading and most influential visual documentarians. His contributions to the theory and practice of his field and to the image collections of the Library of Congress, particularly those of the American Folklife Center, have been substantial. Since Carl joined the Library’s staff in the 1970s, his images, his approaches to fieldwork, and his involvement in AFC fieldwork survey projects from the 1970s to the 1990s framed some of the Center’s most important early initiatives. His major contributions to the field of documentary photography, including to FADGI (The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative) and other projects, led the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives to establish the Carl Fleischhauer Award in 2023. In this Botkin Lecture, he will discuss his approaches to fieldwork, photographic documentation and archiving, and recount his experiences as a fieldworker on some of AFC’s now iconic field survey projects.