Supervisory Meeting - 19/12/2012 @ MMU

Present at Meeting - Simon Faulkner / Gavin Parry

The meeting discussed further developments in the research conducted including:

• The development of a database which catalogues the Hardman negative archive from data collected from the Studio Registers - thus making the archive more transparent in certain ways.
• Questions surrounding how this makes the archive more understandable remain unanswered.
• The database was discussed as being part of the methodology of research and as a potential way of identifying patterns and possible narratives.
• The idea of finding narratives was discussed as a way of releasing the 'power' of the archive as a historical repository.
• Hardman's increased photographic activity during WWII was discussed and the possibilities of developing narratives around the subject of 'In Memorium'.
• Fictionalised narratives were also discussed as a way of using archival material as a starting point.

Action points arrising from the meeting:

• Continue to catalogue the archive when it becomes available again in  Spring 2013.
• Think about how this cataloguing might be prt of the methodology for the project and what it might allow to happen.
• How might allow the use of the archive for the development of own archival or photographic response ?
• The form of this response remains unspecified, so this will also require further thought.
• There might be a need for a set of options to be mapped out for the next meeting.
• Secondary materials should also continue  to be read, for the development of the literature review.
• The next meeting should discuss the RD2 process and the writing up of some materials as part of this transfer process.