Asmp Experts & Masters

The calling cards of any archive are preservation and access. Tom’s guest today is Grayson Dantzic. Grayson is an ASMP Board Member in the New York chapter, a photographer, and an archivist. As an archivist, he has been working with Tom to organize and assess the value of ASMP’s archives as a representation of the history of photography over the past 75 years. Grayson’s goal is to raise awareness about the roots of photography and the ASMP in order to shed light on the rich stories behind the people that have shared history through photography.In this episode, we talk about…Grayson’s journey to photography and photo archivingRaising awareness about the roots of photographyHow passionate the early founders were for what they were trying to doComparing the media saturation of today to the founding timesPutting together a rich tapestry of the history of ASMPSurprising takeaways from looking at the archivesConnecting resources between different archivesCompensating for the loss of the human connective piece in ph