Title & Author:

Photographs objects histories : on the materiality of images / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Material cultures

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Introduction : photographs as objects / Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart -- Un beau souvenir du Canada : object, image, symbolic space / Joan M. Schwartz -- Ere the substance fade : photography and hair jewellery / Geoffrey Batchen -- Mixed box : the cultural biography of a box of 'ethnographic' photographs / Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart -- Making meaning : displaced materiality in the library and art museum / Glenn Willumson -- Making a journey : the Tupper scrapbooks and the travel they describe / Alison Nordstrom -- Photographic playing cards and the colonial metaphor : teaching the Dutch colonial culture / Susan Legêne -- 'Under the gaze of the ancestors' : photographs and performance in colonial Angola / Nuno Porto -- The photograph reincarnate : the dynamics of Tibetan relationships with photography / Clare Harris -- 'Photo-cross' : the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph / Gabriel Hanganu -- Print club photography in Japan : framing social relationships / Richard Chalfen and Mai Murui -- Photographic materiality in the age of digital reproduction / Joanna Sassoon.
English, French.

Summary:

This volume explores the idea that photographs are objects as well as images of objects, and that this materiality is integral to their meaning and use.

Resources:
2005.
Table of contents
Publisher description
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415254418 (alk. paper)
9780415254410 (alk. paper)
0415254426 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415254427 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography in anthropology.
Photographs Social aspects.
Material culture.
Photographie en anthropologie.
Photographies Aspect social.
Culture matérielle.
material culture (discipline)
73.20 technological conditions of existence: general (ethnology)
21.40 photographic art: general.
Fotografie
Anthropologie
Materiële cultuur.
Foto's.
Photographie ethnographique.
Anthropologie visuelle.
Photographie Aspect social.
Aspect social.
Objet (Esthétique)
Photographie (Image)

Form/genre:

Intercultural comparisons (form)

Added entries:

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952-
Hart, Janice, 1951-
Material cultures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238072
Call No.: BIB 167926
Status: Available