Abstract
This proposal results from an ongoing project being developed at the Center for Technology, Restoration and Arts Enhancement (TECH & ART), a Research and Development Unit which is part of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT), in Portugal. This research project aims at recovering, analyzing and promoting a specific fraction of the photographic archive of a photographer whose name is less familiar in the Portuguese art scene, Mário de Oliveira (1926-1999). The visual repository researched narrates and documents one of the most important Portuguese furniture companies, Olaio, between the 1960s and 1980s. The project is thus tasked with the digitization and digital restoration of the archive, contained in large format photographic matrices of film, color and black & white, with its consequent migration from the analogue format to a new digital dimension, in a number of around 300 unpublished and unexplored images. The research thus focuses on the interpretation of a subject represented in visual form, which is linked to the Portuguese industrial past of a company at the vanguard of furniture design and conception by international standards. It rescues a unique photographic collection and gives an essential reference to an important freelance photographer, whose work, until now, has remained obscure and that can be linked to the Industrial Photography genre.
Author Information
Miguel Duarte, Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
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