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Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs (Paperback)
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Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs (Paperback)
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Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and
museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in
a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical
museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the
politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical
attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and
lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into
focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that
photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that
there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to
the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of
museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and
academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise.
After an introduction setting out the range of questions and
problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and
ways of thinking about photographs in museums. Shifting the
emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the space of
the gallery, this is followed by a series of case studies of
exhibitionary practices and the museum strategies that support
them. The third section focuses on the role of photographs in the
museum articulation of 'difficult histories'. A final section
addresses photograph collections in a digital environment. New
technologies and new media have transformed the management, address
and purposing in photographs in museums, from cataloguing practices
to streaming on social media. These growing practices challenge
both traditional hierarchies of knowledge in museums and the
location of authority about photographs. The volume emerges from
PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded project on museums and the photographic
legacy of the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural
Europe.
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