What Photographs Do
The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword - Joanna Norman
Museum Cultures of Photography: An
Introduction
Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious
Part I Disseminations
1 Little
marks of ownership: the introduction and production of museum postcards
1913-1939
Elizabeth Edwards
2 The
museum and the image factory: The South Kensington Museum, the Brothers
Dalziel, and the making of Victorian museum catalogues
Bethan Stephens
3 The image as asset
Tom Windross
Part II Collections
4 The official museum photographer:
Isabel Agnes Cowper
Erika Lederman
5 Photographing the Eltenberg Reliquary
Ken Jackson
6 Photographing
theatre and performance
Graham Brandon
PART III Histories
7 Collecting India: Photographs, pedagogy
and power
Divia
Patel
8 The digitised guard books:
another history
Steve Woodhouse
PART IV Reworkings
9 Condition report: drawing things together
Simon
Fleury
10 K.A.C.
Creswell’s photographs of Islamic architecture
Omniya
Abdel-Barr
11 Two dimensions among three: Museum photography
in the V&A's refurbished cast courts
Angus Patterson
PART V Visibilities
12 A submerged collection:
Photographs in the National Art Library, 1853-1977
Ella
Ravilious
13 Revitalising
research: the fall and rise of the furniture image collection
Kate Hay
PART
VI Digital
14 In the photographic studio
Richard
Davis
15 The backs of things
George
Eksts
16 Computations and complications: Value
systems of institutional photography
Catherine
Troiano
Afterword
Duncan
Forbes
Index
Format: Paperback
Size: 234 × 156 mm
325 Pages
120 colour illustrations
Copyright: © 2022
ISBN: 9781800082991
Publication: November 01, 2022