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This collection of essays investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue.
List of contents
Part 1 Archival Processes and Places 1. Photographs in Place in Archives and the Writing of Photography's History 2. The Place of Photographs in an Archive and the Place of German
Wissenschaft in Italy 3. Transports of Vision: Geopiety and Frederic Edwin Church's Photographic Collection of the Mediterranean and Middle East 4. Translating the Work of Art: Photo Archives and Institutional Memory in Oxford
Part 2 Positioning the Photographic Object 5. Archiving Royal Heirlooms in the Age of Mass Reproduction: The Publication of the Crown Treasures of the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre and Early Color Photography 6. "The Days Before Railways and Photographs": Berenson's Photographic Archive and the Displacements of Art History 7. The Archive in Transition: Reframing Josef Sudek's Photographic Reproductions of Art 8.
The Family of Man as Archive and Place 9. Reciprocating Place: Photo Archives and Bedouin in the Naqab Desert
Part 3 Dislocating and Dematerializing Photographic Archives 10. Displacing the Photograph: The Photographic Image 11. Out of Place in Cyberspace: Living Digital Archives in Contemporary Iranian Pasts 12. Places of Photography and Phases of Digitization
About the author
Geraldine A. Johnson is Head of the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford and a College Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.
Deborah Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Regent's University, London.
Summary
This collection of essays investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue.
