Project helps preserve architectural photographs

University of California Riverside News

Architectural photographs from countries around the globe, including images from 1980s Middle East, Mongolia, and China, will soon be available via a digital archive.

The open-access photo archive will hold 35mm color images that are being preserved by UC Riverside’s Department of the History of Art in collaboration with the Society of Architectural Historians, or SAH.

The work is being done with a nearly $340,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collections and Reference Resources. The grant, which runs through 2027, expands work on the already existing Color Film Emergency Project, or CFEP. The CFEP emerged from the realization that numerous, valuable 35mm slide collections created and amassed by 20th-century scholars, preservationists, design practitioners, and photographers of the built environment are threatened with loss, destruction, or environmental damage.

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