![]() and an International Fellow may use the initials Int. An Honorary Fellow may use the initials Hon. ![]() Those elected to chartered membership of the RIBA after 1971 may use the initials RIBA but cannot use the old ARIBA and FRIBA. While the practices of documenting might have radically democratic intentions, I also maintain that there are a number of critical problems involved in such practices.Architects in the UK, who have made contributions to the profession through design excellence or architectural education, or have in some other way advanced the profession, might until 1971 be elected Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects and can write FRIBA after their name if they feel so inclined. Alongside 'anonymous history', I suggest that those involved in documenting practices necessarily had to negotiate a particular author function that might inoculate the work against being perceived as an 'artwork'. The particular relationship that photography has to this practice is explored through the responses to the 'Parallel of Art and Life' exhibition. ![]() 'Anonymous history' is a practice of collecting and perceiving the world that starts out from the 'disdained everyday field' and assumes no inherent hierarchy to the object world. ![]() I argue that a practice of 'anonymous history' - a term taken from Siegfried Giedion but understood as having a more extensive provenance - can be seen as a crucial ingredient in the very different work of those involved in the exhibition 'Parallel of Art and Life' (Nigel Henderson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alison and Peter Smithson) and Mass-Observation. This article sets out to establish some of the genealogical and conceptual terms for recognizing the importance of the document within various strands of British visual culture. ![]()
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