As fotografias nos arquivos pessoais e familiares: para uma revisão teórica

Abstract

Research about personal and family archives that was developed based on the literature published in Portuguese language and on technical visits carried out in December 2019 at the Archive and Library of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, in Évora, and at the Photographic Documentation Archive of the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage, in Lisbon, with the objective of verifying how the archival processing of photographs presents itself in this panorama. It seeks to examine how the authors conceptualize personal and family archives and how is the photographs presentation in these archives. It was found that there is no consensus among the authors on the terminology used in this area and that, although photographs are present in most personal archives, the literature in the area does not reflect this reality.