Fiona J. Mackenzie (National Trust for Scotland)
Linda McCartney said of photography, “If you see something that moves you, and snap it, you keep a moment.” Pittsburgh born photographer ethnologist Margaret Fay Shaw understood this. Her photography of the Scottish Hebridean people provides us with a candid glimpse of ‘Other people’s lives’ in the 1920’s/30’s. National Trust for Scotland Archivist Fiona Mackenzie, introduces and re-presents Shaw’s 1958 BBC broadcast “Other People’s Lives”, to demonstrate an archive’s potential to be a “Synergetic Phenomenon”. The Canna Folklore Archives, image, early film, correspondence, sound, anecdote and song, demonstrate the power of a ‘jigsaw’ Archive to tell stories.
Part of 31-02 Women in/and the Folklore of Ireland and the U.K., Wednesday, October 20, 9:30 am–11:00 am