Archive of technology, entertainment and everyday life
Archives, collections and studies of everyday history offer ways into social practices, but each document shows only part of the picture. A careful reading separates what is recorded from what cannot be claimed.
Open storyCatalogues help identify albums and variants, but they do not by themselves prove that two cards belong to the same series. A careful reading separates what each source records from what still requires comparison and evidence.
Open storyA cautious approach to visual culture from 1970 to 2009: separating what an image shows from what its medium, process and documentation allow us to claim.
Open storyPhotographs, catalogues and records describe different aspects of an interior. Comparing their roles helps frame useful questions without mistaking a partial image for a complete reconstruction of a room.
Open storyTo understand how a home computer was used, it helps to look beyond the machine: its peripherals and storage media also had to be identified, preserved and described. Archival documentation offers clues about this relationship—and about what cannot be inferred from a storage medium alone.
Open storyThe spread of plastic and the persistence of wooden toys appear in the sources as material changes, not as a complete account of how children played. Comparing that evidence helps ask what an object can reveal—and what its instructions would need to add.
Open storyPhotographs can bring us close to everyday gestures and settings, but they do not turn one experience into a general rule. Drawing on projects about photography and daily life, alongside Spanish archives, this analysis considers what an image documents and what it leaves open.
Open storyArchives, catalog records and documents help us investigate how cinema is preserved and described. They also reveal the limits of what can be claimed without returning to the film and its sources.
Open storyA photograph documents more than what it depicts. Its support, process and surviving annotations can help describe it, but they do not justify filling in what is missing. A guide to the clues and limits of documentary reading, from developed paper to digital workflows.
Open storyMagazine, fanzine, mini-comic, album and graphic novel are distinct publishing formats. Treating them as formats raises questions about how narrative is experienced, without confusing what a medium might allow with established facts about a particular work.
Open storyReconstructing Spanish television from 1970 to 2000 means reading more than the programmes that survive: archives, research and documents can bring us closer to broadcasts and their context, while requiring us to distinguish what aired from what endured.
Open storyAn engine, a chassis and a manual tell different parts of the story of car culture. The available sources help clarify what can be said about that reading—and what still needs verification.
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