‘The water started slowly to rise and rise, like a horror movie’: The race to archive art

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The Irish photographer David Farrell lost a legacy in the recent Italian floods. What can artists do to protect their legacies?

for its work in cataloguing, storing and digitising catalogues and exhibition ephemera, including invitations from over the years.

; he was responsible for the day-to-day management and archiving of the band’s photography collection, which includes work by Anton Corbijn. He is organising a series of free archiving workshops, launching in August as part of Heritage Week.U2 archive: Anton Corbijn's photography includes promotional images for the band's album Achtung Baby

, which has led to a general increase in standards in museum and gallery archiving and collections care.The early street photography and Innocent Landscape negative losses were hard to absorb,” Farrell says, describing how the flood hit him and della Luna in different ways. “The violation of the house as an oasis had hit her so hard; I foolishly and romantically hoped that if I could save the deep past it might soften the present for her, but more and more know this to be futile.

 

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