Community-based photographic archives and "potential" histories of the Cold War in Eastern Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The article proposes to look at the recently emerged online photographic archives in Eastern Europe as a form of digital commons. The bulk of the collected photographs in these archives are vernacular, family or amateur photo-graphs, the sort which obstinately resists being included in the histories of photography. The online archives un-der scrutiny here, Fortepan in Hungary and Karta/CAS in Poland, disregard the established divisions ...