1 Journal of Visual Literacy, 2011 Volume 30, Number 1, 1-18 The Role of an Archivist in Shaping Collective Memory on Kibbutz. Through her Work on the Photographic Archive. Edna Barromi Perlman Kibbutz College of Education, Technology and Art Tel Aviv, Israel Abstract An archivist from a kibbutz in the north of Israel has been managing the kibbutz archive for close to a decade. I have chosen to present her enterprise and the role she is playing by means of her archival work, which is changing the historiography of her kibbutz 1 . The archivist at the kibbutz in question reevaluates her kibbutz’s history while incorporating values of egalitarianism and feminism into the archive. Keywords: archive, kibbutz, photographs, feminism