Making it Medical

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLCL0aTAFTc&t=378s Making It Medical: Clinical Photography at a South African Medical School* *This paper was presented as part of the 1000 Words Little Talks hosted by the Network for Developing Photographic Research on 24 February 2021. Detail from CFM Saint’s An Introduction to Clinical Surgery (1949) Figure 343 seen here is one of almost 500 …

Archiving 101 | Processing

With my return to the PLC looming it is time to consider what on earth will happen when I (again) get my hands on the UCT Collection. The records need to be ‘processed’ – they need to be given an ‘accession number’ (a unique alphanumeric ID), they need to be ‘arranged’ (grouped, organised, categorised), and …

A Virtual Return

It’s been two months since my last entry. Or confession. I’m not sure which. Since then, I have moved to Manchester (UK not US) in a furious attempt to make something of this project and myself. In a week the research done to date on the UCT Collection will be presented at the St Andrews …