[KS] Terry Bennett's Photo Collection

[Junghee Lee]

This is similar to the case of art collections.  Try to sell it together to
one organization may indicate that the collector wants to preserve his name
attached to the collection. If that is the case, perhaps one can make a
deal that the buyer will publish the exhibition catalog so a memory of the
collector can be indicated once.

Best wishes,

Junghee Lee
Professor of Art History
School of Art and Design
Portland State University
P. O. Box 751
Portland, OR  97207-0751
U. S. A.
leeju at pdx.edu

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:02 PM Brother Anthony <ansonjae at sogang.ac.kr>
wrote:

> Part of the problem is the size of the collection, which TB wishes to sell
> complete. This takes us into the several millions of dollars which is
> hardly feasible in today's world. As for his collection related to
> Indochina, which is so much larger and much more complex, from what I hear,
> one dares not even think of what a possible price might be or who might pay
> it. For Korea, part of the difficulty is the amost complete lack of
> national awareness or interest when it comes to archiving materials of any
> kind, anywhere. I have not heard that there is a Korean National Archive
> which would be the obvious place for such a collection. I was quite
> surprised when recently the pack of 94 photographic negatives by (?) Carlo
> Rossetti found a buyer in Korea (I do not know who) at a high price at K
> Auction after failing to find a buyer ar auctions in Europe, etc. If TB
> wishes to sell, he would be well advised to take the same route (auction in
> Korea, probably preceded by an exhibition) but I doubt if he could sell the
> complete collection as such. It is bound to have materials with varying
> levels of rarity / interest / value. There are other considerable
> collections of archival material related to Korea I know of that face the
> same problem, for even should someone wish to make a donation, I do not
> really see any institution in Korea qualified and adapted to receive
> fragile materials such as photos, maps, account books, personal letters,
> transcribed interviews, diaries . . . . with no immediate purpose other
> than long-term preservation.
>
> The other side of the coin is the considerable amount of older printed
> material held in certain university libraries in Seoul to which absolutely
> noobody seems able to gain access. It is only quite recently that Korean
> academics seem to have realized the interest of the older photographic
> record. The use made by Korean scholars from Sungyungwan of the
> photographic materials in the Griffis archive at Rutgers in preparing last
> year's massive volume 'Photographs of Korea in the William Elliot Griffis
> Collection' marks a new departure.
>
> Brother Anthony
> President, RAS Korea
>
>
>
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