The article traces Marc Ferrez’s logs, produced in the first decades of the twentieth century, analyzing them as an autobiographical writing and an effort to build memory. The notebooks show a determination to inventory his own work, to register the technological and scientific knowledge that influenced photography at the threshold of modern photographic practice and to produce a “self-writing” that valued the author as an artist, photographer, a modern man and expert in processes and technologies of the photographic image.
Keywords: collection, memory, autobiography, self-writing, personal documents, Marc Ferrez.
