Fortepan is a community photo archive based in Budapest, Hungary, established in 2010. Today the archive contains thousands of digitized high-resolution archival photos that capture everyday twentieth-century life in Hungary. Fortepan photos are organized along an interactive timeline and are publicly available for anyone to search, tag, download, and use. Fortepan can be considered innovative, perhaps even disruptive, to archiving practices on a number levels. First is its chronological organization strategy. Most of the photos are connected to a singular place, Hungary, and depict everyday Hungarian life. As a digital-only archive, Fortepan's founders could easily reject traditional archiving methods used at museums, libraries, and state archives, which display digital photos online to directly correspond to the physical originals stored in the back room. Traditional archives that have digitized some of their collections and moved them online often continue to organize digital objects within an individual collection and upload images, such as photos, with attention to the collection's historical order and provenance. This order makes a lot of sense to archivists, but not necessarily to visitors exploring the photos. Since Fortepan founder Miklós Tamási was more concerned with user experience and public exploration, he felt that time and place was the best way to introduce users to the photos in the archive. As a result, a Fortepan user enters the archive at a point in time, for example, the 1930s, and sees images from multiple collections that share the same date. The result is an unfolding of visual collective memory from the 20th century, and a new way to experience digital photo archives. More information...
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