Название: Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
Автор: Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 9781409464891
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 283
Размер: 12,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.