• Stefano Graziani (photographer)

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

2017

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.

Inkjet print

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

PH2018:0005:030

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

Photograph © Stefano Graziani