Búnker de imágenes

Abstract

Conservation measures implemented to conserve the Corbis photographic archive —a Microsoft affiliate— are not to be confused with an act of philanthropy. Rather than an effort to protect more than 65 million photographs from natural corrosion, this project appears to be more of a sales strategy designed to encourage the consumption of digitalized products which only dubiously reproduce the documentary quality of the originals, while restricting access to an enormous visual archive that, due to its dimensions and content, is of outstanding historical value. Peter Krieger analyzes the subtlety of this sinister act and questions the enthusiasm of those who consider pure digitalization, detached from a humanistic policy, to be the best way to conserve, promote and study the visual documents of our civilization.