Title & Author:

Photographs, museums, collections : between art and information / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton.

Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
©2015

Description:

xiv, 267 pages, 14 variously numbered pages of plates ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Introduction -- Between art and information: towards a collecting history of photographs / Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) and Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK) -- pt. 2. Becoming Collections -- Multiple collections and fluid meanings: Alfred Maudslay's archaeological photographs at the British Museum / Duncan Shields (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- Self assembled: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Photographic Albums and the Development of her Museum, 1902-1924 / Casey Riley (Boston University, USA) -- 'An Invitation to Visit Windermere': moments of departure and return in the biography of the Bryan Heseltine Collection / Darren Newbury (University of Brighton, UK) -- Private to public: the David MacGregor Maritime Photographic Collection / Eleni Papavasileiou (SS Great Britain Trust, UK) -- pt. 3. Scientific Documents -- Collecting portraiture, exhibiting race: Augustus Pitt-Rivers's photographs at the South Kensington Museum / Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK) -- Collecting photographs, constructing disciplines: the rationality and rhetoric of photography at the Museum of Economic Botany / Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway, UK) -- Photographs as scientific and social objects in the correspondence of Charles Darwin / Geoff Belknap (University of Leicester) and Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge) -- pt. 4. Shaped in History -- Revolutionary photographs: the Museo de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba / Kristine Juncker (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- Photography in Jersey under German Occupation: the 1940 'Order concerning open-air photography' and photography at the Societe Jersiaise Museum / Gareth Syvret (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- From them to us: changing meanings of photographs of Maori at Te Papa / Athol McCredie (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) -- pt. 5. Curatorial Practices -- Unwrapping the layers: translating photograph albums into an exhibition context / Ulrike Bessel (DASA Working World Exhibition in Dortmund, Germany) -- To collect and preserve negatives: the Eli Lotar Collection at the Centre Georges Pompidou / Damarice Amao (Paris Sorbonne, France) -- Looking for Bolton in the Worktown Archive / Caroline Edge (Bolton Museum/University, UK).

Summary:

The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation, shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums.

ISBN:

9781472524928 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1472524926 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781472533920 (paperback alkaline paper)
1472533925 (paperback alkaline paper)
(electronic book)
9781472527332
147252733X (electronic book)
9781472527332 (electronic book)
9781472533661 (ePDF)
9781350133280 (pbk.)
1350133280 (pbk.)

Subject:

Photography museums.
Photograph collections.
Photography Museums.
Photographie Musées.
Collections de photographies.
Musées de la photographie.
21.40 photographic art: general.
Museum
Fotografie
Sammlung

Added entries:

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- editor.
Morton, Christopher A., editor.
Morton, Christopher A. editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290644
Call No.: BIB 233768
Status: Available