Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Photographs, museums, collections : between art and information
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Place
Date
2015
Physical Description
xiv, 267 pages, 14 variously numbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781472524928
1472524926
9781472533920
1472533925
147252733X
9781472527332
9781350133280
1350133280
Language
English
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
List of Plates and Figures
Notes on Contributors
Preface
1. Between Art and Information: Introduction, Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) and Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK)
PART I BECOMING COLLECTIONS
2. Multiple Collections and Fluid Meanings: Alfred Maudslay's Archaeological Photographs at the British Museum, Duncan Shields (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
3. Self Assembled: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Photographic Albums and the Development of her Museum, 1902-1924, Casey Riley (Boston University, USA)
4. 'An Invitation to Visit Windermere': Moments of Departure and Return in the Biography of the Bryan Heseltine Collection, Darren Newbury (University of Brighton, UK)
5. Private to Public: the David MacGregor Maritime Photographic Collection, Eleni Papavasileiou (SS Great Britain Trust, UK)
PART II SCIENTIFIC DOCUMENTS
6. Collecting Portraiture, Exhibiting Race: Augustus Pitt-Rivers's Photographs at the South Kensington Museum, Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK)
7. Collecting Photographs, Constructing Disciplines: the Rationality and Rhetoric of Photography at the Museum of Economic Botany, Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway, UK)
8. Photographs as Scientific and Social Objects in the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Geoff Belknap (University of Leicester) and Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge)
PART III SHAPED IN HISTORY
9. Revolutionary photographs: the Museo de la Revoluci≤n, Havana, Cuba, Kristine Juncker (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
10. Photography in Jersey under German Occupation: the 1940 'Order Concerning Open-air Photography' and Photography at the SociΘtΘ Jersiaise Museum, Gareth Syvret (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK)
11. From Them to Us: Changing Meanings of Photographs of Maori at Te Papa, Athol Mc Credie (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa)
PART IV CURATORIAL PRACTICES
12. Unwrapping the Layers: Translating Photograph Albums into an Exhibition Context, Ulrike Bessel (DASA Working World Exhibition in Dortmund, Germany)
13. To Collect and Preserve Negatives: the Eli Lotar Collection at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Damarice Amao (Paris Sorbonne, France)
14. Looking for Bolton in the Worktown Archive, Caroline Edge (Bolton Museum/University, UK)
Index.
Public Access Text
[Keywords: Photography museums; Photography--Museums]
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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