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Photographs, Museums, Collections - Between Art and Information (Hardcover)
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Photographs, Museums, Collections - Between Art and Information (Hardcover)
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The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a
complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of
photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand
and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created
tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While
major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and
visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in
museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its
ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation,
shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of
these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance
unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the
historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums. Using
critically informed empirical investigation, it explores
substantive and historiographical questions such as what is the
historical patterning in the way photographs have been produced,
collected and retained by museums? How do categories of the
aesthetic and evidential shape the history of collecting
photographs? What has been the work of photographs in museums? What
does an understanding of photograph collections add to our
understanding of collections history more broadly? What are the
methodological demands of research on photograph collections? The
case studies cover a wide range of museums and collection types,
from art galleries to maritime museums, national collections to
local history museums, and international perspectives including
Cuba, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK.
Together they offer a fascinating insight into both the history of
collections and collecting, and into the practices and poetics of
archives across a range of disciplines, including the history of
science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology.
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