Preservação e conservação de fotografias: as condições do acervo das empresas de comunicação do Estado da Paraíba

Abstract

Photography is considered a special document in Archivology, representing the second largest number of documents found in public or private archives. It is the way that people use most to record their moments: joys, parties, family, events, historical and cultural facts. By its nature, analog photography is composed of physical and chemical elements that are interconnected to form the image. The support can be plastic or paper, agglutinated with gelatin, with silver crystals, dyes and pigments, the part sensitive to light. For this reason, it is a highly fragile document, where several factors can happen for its degradation, the main one being the lack of storage and storage conditions. Therefore, this work intends to answer the question of how is the photographic collection of communication companies in Paraíba. The choice for this theme has to do with my professional life, for over 30 years I worked in the Paraiba press, mainly in printed newspapers, as a photojournalist, and in this journey I realized how the photographic collection was treated, without any condition of guard and preservation. The research is descriptive, with a qualitative approach, and field research with semi-structured interview, since we want to understand the conditions of preservation and conservation of the collections. Several problems of preservation and conservation were identified, among them, the absence of effective policies for the preservation of photographs, especially in private institutions, which have no interest in preserving their social and historical memory.