Questioning Pictures: Photograph of Souvenir de Pompei, albumen print by Giorgio Sommer, ca.1870

People:

Stefano Graziani (photographer)

Title:

Questioning Pictures: Photograph of Souvenir de Pompei, albumen print by Giorgio Sommer, ca.1870

Date:

2017

Description:

Photograph by Stefano Graziani of the following work: Giorgio Sommer, Souvenir de Pompei, ca. 1870s, albumen silver print, 30.5 x 44.2 x 9.1 cm (Album), PH1980:0046:001-101, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

Questioning Pictures is a 36 photograph project commissioned by Fondazione Prada, Milan. Artist Stefano Graziani investigates archival and conservation systems in a number of museums. Through photographing museum objects, Graziani, focusing on the relationship between photographs, the museum objects and the power structures at play within institutions.

The museums include the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montréal, Canada; Sir John Soane’s Museum in London, UK; the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum Insel Hombroich in Neuss, Germany; the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona, Italy; and the Plaster Cast Gallery at Museo Canova in Possagno, Italy.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Inkjet print

Dimensions:

24.0 x 30.5 (comp.) 26.8 x 33.4 (sheet)

Reference number:

PH2018:0005:030

Inscription:

Signed, inscribed "for CCA" and numbered "30", on verso

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture,
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
Don de l'artiste / Gift of the artist
Commande de la Fondation Prada / Commissioned by Fondazione Prada

Photograph © Stefano Graziani

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