Matuszewski/Lumière. Towards a new source of cinematographic documentary encyclopaedia

The thoughts of Polish photographer Boleslas Matuszewski on the necessity of creating storage facilities for film reels in order to sustain the work of historians and to encourage collection efforts and the enhancement of Lumiere film production are still valid today. These two approaches have been fuelled by debates that governed the creation of documentary photography museums. Tracing this “causality” in the two projects enables their potential points of intersection to be emphasised. These...