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Documentary Transformations And Cultural Context, Robert Pagès
Documentary Transformations And Cultural Context, Robert Pagès
Proceedings from the Document Academy
This article is a translation of one originally published in 1948 in Review of Documentation. The article examines the relationship between documents, broadly defined, and culture. More specifically, it examines the connections between experience, reason and the stability of documents as media technologies evolve over time.
Introduction To Robert Pagès’ “Documentary Transformations And Cultural Context”, Michael K. Buckland
Introduction To Robert Pagès’ “Documentary Transformations And Cultural Context”, Michael K. Buckland
Proceedings from the Document Academy
Robert Pagès (1919-2007) was an anarchist activist who later became director of a major social psychology research laboratory. Between these roles he was a student in documentation established in Paris by Suzanne Briet and others at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. In 1947 while he was a student of documentation Pagès submitted a thesis entitled “Transformations documentaires et milieu culturel” (Documentary transformations and cultural context) which was published as an article in the Review of Documentation in 1948. A key theme was that documentation is to culture what machinery is to industry. This introduction situates and explains some …