When German-born photographer Annemarie Heinrich opened her first studio in 1930, her adopted country of Argentina was experiencing a time of change from old cultural practices to industrialization. Heinrich took hundreds of photographs of this transformation in Buenos Aires and across South America from the 1930s t
o ’50s. Now, many of those negatives, prints, and archives are at risk of disappearing.
o ’50s. Now, many of those negatives, prints, and archives are at risk of disappearing.
Recently, the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme shared her digitized South America photographs online under a Creative Commons license. The release is part of a project called “A modern gaze on old cultural practices in Argentina: relocation and preservation of the ‘Heinrich Sanguinetti Archive’ (1930–1956),” initiated by Dr. Diana Wechsler with the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in collaboration with the Archivo Heinrich Sanguinetti.
by on January 6, 2016
