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Item Number: 129973
Title: Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
Author: Edwards, Elizabeth ; Sigrid Lien (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409464891
Description: Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. 24cm., hardcover, 266pp., 42 b&w illus. Contents: Introduction: museums and the work of photographs, Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien. Part I The Affective Photograph: Museums and the emotional afterlife of colonial photography, Wayne Modest; ‘I know these streets’: photographs, affective environments, and the display of conflict in Northern Ireland, Shawn M. Reming Jr. Part II Curatorial Strategies 1: Working Images: Photography and the crisis of ethnographic display, Hilde Nielssen; Negative space: tracing absent images in the National Museums Scotland’s collections, Chantal Knowles. Part III Curatorial Strategies 2: Photographic Art Works: The aesthetics of the bear hunt: contemporary photography in the ecology of a Sámi museum, Sigrid Lien; Haunted topographies - landscape photography as an act of remembrance in the Neues Museum, Berlin, Tonje Haugland Sorensen. Part IV Curatorial Strategies 3: Contested Stories: The story of the Netherlands-Indies: the use of photographs in the Centre of Indies Remembrance, Pamela Pattynama; Heroic stories or indigenous perspectives? Polar-expedition photographs in Norwegian museum exhibitions, Lena Aarekol. Part V Working in the Real World: Curating ‘a good type’: Japanese ‘art’ photographs in an anthropological archive, David Odo; Military matters. Approaches to the photographic collection of the Dutch Army Museum, Casper van Bruggen; Looking at culture: visualizing anthropology at a university museum, Ira Jacknis. Part VI Digital Environments and Photograph Collections: Digital dilemmas: the impact of digital tools on photograph collections, Kajsa Hartig; Observations from the interface: photography, ethnography, and digital projects at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Chris Morton.
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