Title & Author:

What photographs do : the making and remaking of museum cultures / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.

Publication:

London : UCL Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2022.

Description:

xxiv, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Museum cultures of photography: an introduction / Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious -- Little marks of ownership: photographic postcards and the culture of the museum, 1913-39 / Elizabeth Edwards -- The museum an the image factory: the South Kinsignton Museum, the Brothers Dalziel and the making of Victorian museum catalgoues / Bethan Stevens -- The image as asset / Tom Windross -- The official museum photographer: Isabel Agnes Cowper / Erika Lederman -- Photography the Eltenberg Reliquary / Ken Jackson -- Photographing theatre and performance / Graham Brandon -- Collecting India: photographs, pedagogy and power / Divia Patel -- The digitized Guard Books: another history / Steve Woodhouse -- Condition report: drawing things together / Simon Fleury -- Revisiting the K.A.C. Creswell photographs of Islamic architecture / Omniya Abdel Barr -- Two dimensions among three: museum photography in the V&A's refurbished Cast Courts / Angus Patterson -- A submerged collection: photographs in the National Art Library, 1853-1977 / Ella Ravilious -- Revitalising research: the fall and rise of the furniture image collection / Kate Hay -- In the Photographic Studio / Richard Davis -- The backs of things / George Eksts -- Computations and complications: value systems of institutional photography / Catherine Troiano.

Summary:

"What are photographs 'doing' in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they 'fine art' or 'archival', but on what might be termed 'non-collections': the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet 'invisible', existing outside the structures of 'the collection'. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways in which such accumulations of photographs create the values, hierarchies, histories and knowledge-systems, through multiple, folded and overlapping layers that might be described as the museum's ecosystem. These photographic dynamics are studied through the prism of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, an institution with over 150 years' engagement with photography's multifaceted uses and existences in the museum. The book differs from more usual approaches to museum studies in that it presents not only formal essays but short 'auto-ethnographic' interventions from museum practitioners, from studio photographers and image managers to conservators and non-photographic curators, who address the significance of both historical and contemporary practices of photography in their work. As such this book offers an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs 'do' in museums, expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums".--UCL Press.

ISBN:

1800082991 (pbk.)
9781800082991 (pbk.)
9781800083004 (hbk.)
1800083009 (hbk.)
(ePub ebook)
9781800083011
(PDF ebook)
9781800082984

Subject:

Victoria and Albert Museum Photograph collections.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert museum (Londres, Royaume-Uni).
Museums and photography.
Photographs as information resources.
Musées et photographie.
Photographies (Sources d'information)
Photograph collections
Photographie.
Musées.

Form/genre:

Informational works.
Documents d'information.

Added entries:

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- editor.
Ravilious, Ella, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room photo 318330
Call No.: TR6.A1 W43 2022
Copy: 1
Status: Available