Robert Pagès’ concept of the “auto-document” as a forerunner to neo-documentation’s philosophy of documentality
Ronald E. Day
Abstract:Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Robert Pagès' 1948 conception of “auto-document” as a possible forerunner to the neo-documentalist conception of “documentality” as offered in Bernd Frohmann’s 2012 article “The Documentality of Mme Briet’s Antelope.”Design/methodology/approach This paper is conceptual and historical.Findings Robert Pagès' concept of the “auto-document” in his 1948 article proposed an understanding of documents that depends on the “uniqueness” of a document. His article proposed … Show more
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