Bolton Worktown Digital Archive Caroline Rachel Alexandra Edge 10.17866/rd.salford.11365583.v1 https://salford.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Bolton_Worktown_Digital_Archive/11365583 <p>This digital archive developed in partnership with Perry Bonewell (Bolton Museum) made all Humphrey Spender’s Worktown photographs available to the public for the first time. The site enables the local community to contribute to the ongoing documentation of the archive. The site has had over 40,000 unique visits to date and has altered the types of loan requests made by national and international institutions, demonstrating a more nuanced interpretation of the Worktown photographs beginning to emerge. </p> 2019-12-13 13:23:44 photography digital archive photographic archive photographs Worktown Humphrey Spender Bolton Bolton Museum Mass Observation socially-engaged practice 1930s documentary Anthropology Lens-based Practice Fine Arts (incl. Sculpture and Painting) Art History Art Criticism Art Theory Visual Cultures