AGMI TO PRESENT PROJECT SAVE ARCHIVES: ARMENIANS THROUGH THE CAMERA’S EYE

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21.10.2008 11:55

Today the Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute in Yerevan will present
a public program by Ruth Thomasian, Founder and Executive Director
of Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives, the premier archive of
Armenian photographs in the United States.

Ms. Thomasian’s program, titled Project SAVE Archives: Armenians
Through the Camera’s Eye, is an introduction to the work she started
in 1975 to collect and document the photographic record of the Armenian
people, wherever and whenever they have lived.

Ms. Thomasian will tell how and why she began collecting photographs,
will explain the basic archival methods she and her staff use, and
then through a PowerPoint presentation will share a wide variety of
photographs with their stories.

Project SAVE Archives, located in Watertown, Massachusetts, has
a growing collection of more than 27,000 photographs dating from
1860. Unique in its mission, Project SAVE preserves the fragmented
heritage of the dispersed Armenian people through photographs and
memories of life–not only in Historic Armenia but in the various
places they have lived, right up to the present. Collections include
images from the Ottoman, Russian, and Persian empires; the Armenian
Diaspora created in the wake of the Genocide with particular emphasis
on the Armenian-American community; and the former Soviet Socialist
R epublic of Armenia as well as today’s Republic of Armenia–and
Project SAVE welcomes more additions from Hayastan.