Photographs Objects Histories - On the Materiality of Images

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Edwards, Janice Hart Klappentext This volume explores the idea that while photographs are images! they are also objects! and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional! political! religious and domestic spheres. Zusammenfassung This innovative volume explores the idea that while photographs are images, they are also objects, and this materiality is integral to their meaning and use. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: photographs as objects, 2 Un beau souvenir du Canada: object, image, symbolic space, 3 Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery, 4 Mixed box: the cultural biography of a box of ‘ethnographic’ photographs, 5 Making meaning: displaced materiality in the library and art museum, 6 Making a journey: the Tupper scrapbooks and the travel they describe, 7 Photographic playing cards and the colonial metaphor: teaching the Dutch colonial culture, 8 ‘Under the gaze of the ancestors’: photographs and performance in colonial Angola, 9 The photograph reincarnate: the dynamics of Tibetan relationships with photography, 10 ‘Photo-cross’: the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph, 11 Print Club photography in Japan: framing social relationships, 12 Photographic materiality in the age of digital reproduction, References, Index

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth (Pitt Rivers Musesum Edwards, Elizabeth Hart Edwards
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Edwards (Editor), Edwards Elizabeth (Editor), Janice Hart (Editor), Hart Janice (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2004
• EAN: 9780415254410
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25441-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Physical, Art forms, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms