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Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with
international case studies to investigate the display of death in
various types of museums-history, anthropology, art, ethnographic,
and science museums - and to understand the changing role of
photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and
poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of
photography in representing and interpreting this difficult topic.
Working with nearly 20 researchers from different cultural
backgrounds and disciplines, the editors critically engage the
recent debate on the changing role of museums, exhibition
meaning-making, and the nature of photography. They offer new ways
for understanding representational practices in relation to
contemporary visual culture. This book will appeal to researchers
and museum professionals, inspiring new thinking about death and
the role of photography in making sense of it.
Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with
international case studies to investigate the display of death in
various types of museums-history, anthropology, art, ethnographic,
and science museums - and to understand the changing role of
photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and
poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of
photography in representing and interpreting this difficult topic.
Working with nearly 20 researchers from different cultural
backgrounds and disciplines, the editors critically engage the
recent debate on the changing role of museums, exhibition
meaning-making, and the nature of photography. They offer new ways
for understanding representational practices in relation to
contemporary visual culture. This book will appeal to researchers
and museum professionals, inspiring new thinking about death and
the role of photography in making sense of it.
To what extent does locality influence contemporary art? Can any
particular artistic practices be defined as uniquely Cypriot? And
does art from Cyprus transcend Western boundaries once it enters
the global art scene? This volume uses Cyprus as a case study for
the exploration of notions of identity, regionalism, and the global
and local in contemporary art practice; it is not, therefore, a
complete historiography of contemporary Cypriot art. Rather, this
critical text provides a theoretical and historical framework that
frames and contextualizes art practices from Cyprus, while always
relating these back to the international art world. Numerous
current and pressing issues—all relevant beyond Cyprus—are
investigated in this book including, but not limited to, art as
capital, the emergence of the “periphery”, the importance of
thriving localities, issues of memory and memorialization,
archaeology, artists’ identities, conflict and politics, social
engagement, gender politics, and such curatorial alternatives as
artist-run spaces. In doing all of this, Contemporary Art from
Cyprus not only bears on current and future art practices in this
region but highlights the importance of Cypriot art in a global
context too.
A"Tourists Who ShootA" (2009-2012) is a contemporary, nuanced look
at how tourists use their cameras while on holiday. Influenced by
the seminal work of photographer Martin Parr, A"Tourists Who
ShootA" offers a playful glimpse at the sometimes bizarre world of
the modern tourist striving to get the perfect shot. It includes an
essay by renowned photography scholar Liz Wells and color
photographs by Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert. Before the invention of
the portable camera people behaved, moved and interacted
differently. Tourist choreographies have evolved, and are still
evolving, alongside changes in camera availability and technology.
Photographer and photography theorist Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert
explores tourist landscapes from New York to Cairo as performance
spaces where the use of the camera has forced specific
choreographies and behaviors upon tourists. With
Stylianou-Lambert's deadpan sense of humor and her unerring eye for
the critical detail that brings a photograph to life, A"Tourists
Who ShootA" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant
reassessment of what it means to be a tourist.
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