by kitchensisters | Dec 8, 2020 | Podcast, The Keepers
2020 is mercifully drawing down. Here at The Kitchen Sisters we have a tradition of creating a radio special based on the themes we’ve been chasing across the year. Our host for the Special, The Keepers: Archiving the Now, is the Academy Award-winning actor and...
by kitchensisters | Nov 20, 2020 | The Keepers
“I see America as a model for how…the assembly of images can serve as an archive of the past as well as a document of the present.” -Garrett Bradley Projects: Garrett Bradley opens this weekend at MoMA… According to the Library of Congress, around 70...
by kitchensisters | Nov 18, 2020 | The Keepers
“Donald Trump is not much of a note-taker, and he does not like his staff to take notes. He has a habit of tearing up documents at the close of meetings. (Records analysts, armed with Scotch Tape, have tried to put the pieces back together.) No real record...
by kitchensisters | Nov 16, 2020 | The Keepers
#KeeperoftheDay: David Johnson Photograph Archive at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library. Johnson spoke with pictorial curator Jack Von Euw about his photo “Boy and Lincoln” taken in 1963: “The NAACP was sponsoring a demonstration downtown in San...
by kitchensisters | Nov 10, 2020 | The Keepers
“Their deaths fell into a kind of archive of silence…” Listen to poet Valzhyna Mort talk about her new book, Music for the Dead and Resurrected, on NPR’s Morning Edition