Registration for the conference Lanzarote in the Historical Photography Archive of the Canary Islands, which will take place on Thursday, January 11, at 7:00 p.m., in the José Saramago Room of the César Manrique Foundation, in Arrecife, is now open.
Registration is free and can be done through the web, electronic portal of the conference cycle Memory of Thursdays, a cycle in which the talk is framed and organized by the department of the Data Center and Digital Memory of Lanzarote of the Island Council.
Lanzarote in the Historical Photography Archive of the Canary Islands will be given by Gabriel Betancor, director of the Historical Photography Archive of the Canary Islands of the FEDAC of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, Doctor in Modern and Contemporary History of the Canary Islands from the ULPGC, and author, among others, of the book “Photography in Gran Canaria (1840-1940)”.
Gabriel Betancort's conference will revolve around the collections on Lanzarote that are preserved in the Historical Photography Archive of the Canary Islands, one of the most important in Spain and whose digital repository was one of the pioneers in the country.
Its origins date back to 1999, the year in which the Cabildo de Gran Canaria acquired important collections of old photographs, with custody and management falling to the FEDAC (Fund for Ethnography and Development of Canarian Crafts).
Since then, the Archive carries out the chemical conservation of photographic artifacts, their digitization to guarantee the social use of the images and the creation of cataloging and search instruments that allow the general public to access the Archive's collections.
Teodoro Maisch, García Escámez or F. Rojas Fariñas “Fachico”
Currently its web portal (www.fotosantiguascanarias.org) contains more than 350,000 photographs covering the period from 1840 to 1980. Part of its contents have the island of Lanzarote as the protagonist, among which are the works of the German photographer Teodoro Maisch, the photographic album of the infrastructures carried out by the Francoist general García Escámez in Lanzarote and La Graciosa, or the most recent collection of the photographer Francisco Rojas Fariñas “Fachico”.
Since its inception, Memoria Digital de Lanzarote has collaborated closely with the Historical Photography Archive of the Canary Islands, which it has taken as a reference. Both archives, through their respective island councils, maintain a collaboration agreement for the dissemination of the audiovisual heritage of the Canary Islands, both in the archipelago and abroad.
Memory of Thursdays
Memory of Thursdays is a cycle of eight conferences that will last throughout every Thursday of January and February and will deal with the role of photographic and audiovisual archives in today's society, analyzing specific examples in Lanzarote (Memoria Digital de Lanzarote), in the Canary Islands or even Madeira.
In addition, taking advantage of its location, the various talks will bring us closer to knowing the audiovisual heritage of Lanzarote and La Graciosa in the main archives of the Archipelago.
Memory of Thursdays is organized by the Cabildo de Lanzarote, sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands through the Ministry of Universities, Science and Innovation and Culture, and has the collaboration of the César Manrique Foundation.
The complete content of the eight conferences will be presented soon at a press conference.
Specifications on tickets
As all tickets are free, the organization asks that the person interested make sure that they will attend before making the reservation. Seats are not previously assigned. Punctuality is requested. The ticket will be valid until 5 minutes before the start of the presentation. From 6:55 p.m., if you have not accessed the venue, your ticket will be canceled and access will be allowed to the public without a ticket, on a first-come, first-served basis, until full capacity is reached.
