Through provenance, archival studiesinsists on the importance of the context of the record, evenover and above its content.
As I become more familiar with the definitions of provenance, this particular instance compels me as I can see many examples of this in some of the media that I consume -
For instance, there is a zine called Sex Change USA by Daisy Thursday [https://luma.com/o1iss5rd] that is a collection of “stories where transgender people were covered in the National Esquire, Sun, and Weekly World News tabloids from 1993-2002.”
What I took away from Sex Change USA was not only a better understanding of the different contexts the pieces from the zine have lived in and do currently live in but a better understanding of the context of it’s current time and how those pieces interact with and inform each other.