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Uncertain images : museums and the work of photographs / edited by Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2014Description: xiii, 266 pages illustrations 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780815346630
  • 9781409464891
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 069.57 23
Contents:
Introduction: Museums and the work of photographs / Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien -- [1] The affective photograph -- Museums and the emotional afterlife of colonial photography / Wayne Modest -- "I know these streets" : photographs, affective environments, and the display of the conflict in Northern Ireland / Shawn M. Reming, Jr. -- [2] 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 -- [3] 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 Sørensen -- [4] 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 -- [5] 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 -- [6] 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 / Christopher Morton.
Summary: Examines the role of photographs in museums.
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Originally published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Museums and the work of photographs / Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien -- [1] The affective photograph -- Museums and the emotional afterlife of colonial photography / Wayne Modest -- "I know these streets" : photographs, affective environments, and the display of the conflict in Northern Ireland / Shawn M. Reming, Jr. -- [2] 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 -- [3] 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 Sørensen -- [4] 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 -- [5] 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 -- [6] 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 / Christopher Morton.

Examines the role of photographs in museums.