Photo archives - UNESCO Archives AtoM catalogue

Zone d'identification

Cote

Titre

Photo archives

Date(s)

1945- (Production)

Niveau de description

Collection

Étendue matérielle et support

circa 29,000 35mm colour slides
140,000 black and white 35mm negatives
1,000 colour 35mm negatives
in addition 15,000 duplicate colour slides

Zone du contexte

Dépôt

Archives de l'UNESCO

Histoire archivistique

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

The photo archives of the Bureau of Public Information handles and preserves most of the photographic material produced by UNESCO.

Some more photographic material is preserved in the UNESCO Archives and includes photos produced by UNESCO and other photographic material used for exhibitions and publications.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

The photo archives cover the period from the foundation of UNESCO until today and contain photographic material of all big events, conferences, meetings which include the participation of the Director General, visits of the important persons and missions of the Director General. They further contain pictures used for exhibitions or publications of UNESCO and material donated by other institutions, member States of delegations.

Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation

Accroissements

Continuous accruals

Mode de classement

Chronologically and by subject

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Conditions d’accès

Part of the photography holdings - mainly the most interesting and important pictures - have been scanned and are accessible online via the UNESCO photobank.

All other photographic material can be searched and accessed via the Audiovisual Section of the Bureau of Public Information or the UNESCO Archives.

Conditions de reproduction

Reproduction and digitalization upon request

Langue des documents

Écriture des documents

Notes sur la langue et l'écriture

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

Until the beginning of the years 2000, all photographic material produced by UNESCO were 35 mm negatives and slides (black and white and later colour). 23,000 of those have been scanned and are accessible via the photobank. All photos taken during the last years are in digital format and stored on a server accessible via BPI.

Instruments de recherche

Around 25,000 photos with a high public interest are indexed in the the UNESCO photobank.

All other photos kept by the Bureau of Public Information are inventoried on card indexes and on chronological lists, available in the photo archives of BPI.

Besides this, there are lists of all photos preserved in the UNESCO Archives available.

Zone des sources complémentaires

Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux

Existence et lieu de conservation des copies

Unités de description associées

Descriptions associées

Zone des notes

Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)

Mots-clés

Mots-clés - Sujets

Mots-clés - Lieux

Mots-clés - Noms

Mots-clés - Genre

Zone du contrôle de la description

Identifiant de la description

Identifiant du service d'archives

Règles et/ou conventions utilisées

Statut

Ébauche

Niveau de détail

Dates de production, de révision, de suppression

Created by Julia Pohle, September 2009