New Perspectives on Europe’s Digital Photographic Heritage

Europeana Photography Thematic Collection

Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (CRDI) - Ajuntament de Girona Thursday 8 June

Gazing at stars in Berlin Treptow, 1930sUnited Archives – In Copyright

1. THE HEART OF THE MATTER

EuropeanaPhotography project consortium, gathered in Vilnius - 2013

2. STORYTELLING

This Picture dates from 1900-1905 and depicts the staircase of the tower of Arnolfo in Palazzo Vecchio, with a mysterious man walking the stairs. Possibly, this is the mayor of Firenze - the city where the Alinari firm started its activities in 1852.

Fratelli Alinari / Alinari Archives – In Copyright

3. WHAT’S IN THE COLLECTION?

4. HOW TO EXPLORE THE COLLECTION?

→ Database + browse entry points

→ Virtual exhibition

As much as it can be rather than as little as one can get away with.[The mission of the maximalist according to composer Milton Babbitt]

The Pleasure of Plenty

1. Industrial Photography in the Machine Age

→ Galleries

→ Blogs + Pic of the month

→ Timeline, tec spec, Pinterest, …

5. IMPACT

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Europeana EssentialsCC BY-SA

Traffic

Europeana Photography

● Over 50 000 sessions within first two weeks from launch - May 22nd - June 5th

● The highest traffic on a thematic collection ever

Industrial Photography in the Machine Age - Online exhibition

● 2 050 sessions

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Europeana EssentialsCC BY-SA

Record page views - per contributor

● TopFoto - 874 page views

● Parisienne de Photo - 399 page views

● United Archives - 2316 page views

● Generalitat de Catalunya - 415 page views

● Ajuntament de Girona - 1120 page views

● The Israel Museum - 569 page views

● Alinari - 170 page views

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Europeana EssentialsCC BY-SA

Social Media● Hashtag #EuropeanaPhotography received 489 172 impressions on Twitter

● Over 15 000 social shares

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Europeana EssentialsCC BY-SA

Press coverage● More than 50 publications from all over the world

Guests of a New Year's Eve party, Germany 1930sUnited Archives/Pollmann - In copyright

Conclusion

• Go to photography.europeana.eu

• explore our collection comprising over 2 million photographs,

• visit our exhibitions and galleries,

• read our blogs and…

GET

INSPIRED!

Christmas play, 1934Lithuanian Museums - PDM