Photographs Museums Collections

Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Christopher Morton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472527332

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Photographs, Museums, Collections by Elizabeth Edwards,Christopher Morton Pdf

The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very beginnings the double capacity of photography - as a tool for making a visual record on the one hand and an aesthetic form in its own right on the other - has created tensions about its place in the hierarchy of museum objects. While major collections of 'art' photography have grown in status and visibility, photographs not designated 'art' are often invisible in museums. Yet almost every museum has photographs as part of its ecosystem, gathered as information, corroboration or documentation, shaping the understanding of other classes of objects, and many of these collections remain uncatalogued and their significance unrecognised. This volume presents a series of case studies on the historical collecting and usage of photographs in museums. Using critically informed empirical investigation, it explores substantive and historiographical questions such as what is the historical patterning in the way photographs have been produced, collected and retained by museums? How do categories of the aesthetic and evidential shape the history of collecting photographs? What has been the work of photographs in museums? What does an understanding of photograph collections add to our understanding of collections history more broadly? What are the methodological demands of research on photograph collections? The case studies cover a wide range of museums and collection types, from art galleries to maritime museums, national collections to local history museums, and international perspectives including Cuba, France, Germany, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK. Together they offer a fascinating insight into both the history of collections and collecting, and into the practices and poetics of archives across a range of disciplines, including the history of science, museum studies, archaeology and anthropology.

Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317005520

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Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs by Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien Pdf

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that there is an economy of photographs in museums which is integral to the processes of the museum, and integral to the understanding of museums. The international contributors, drawn from curators and academics, reflect a range of visual and museological expertise. After an introduction setting out the range of questions and problems, the first part addresses broad curatorial strategies and ways of thinking about photographs in museums. Shifting the emphasis from curatorial practices and anxieties to the space of the gallery, this is followed by a series of case studies of exhibitionary practices and the museum strategies that support them. The third section focuses on the role of photographs in the museum articulation of ’difficult histories’. A final section addresses photograph collections in a digital environment. New technologies and new media have transformed the management, address and purposing in photographs in museums, from cataloguing practices to streaming on social media. These growing practices challenge both traditional hierarchies of knowledge in museums and the location of authority about photographs. The volume emerges from PhotoCLEC, a HERA funded project on museums and the photographic legacy of the colonial past in a postcolonial and multicultural Europe.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0821226231

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Looking at Photographs by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski Pdf

Features new duotone reproductions of one hundred landmark photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art that chronicle the historical evolution of the photographic arts in works by Adams, Weston, Stieglitz, Steichen, and other notable photographers. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Author : James McQuaid
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015031773149

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An Index to American Photographic Collections by James McQuaid Pdf

Author : Paul Martineau
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606064672

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The Thrill of the Chase by Paul Martineau Pdf

Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. (1921–1987) amassed an extraordinary collection of 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, recognizing that photography was an undervalued art form on which he might have a profound impact as a collector. He was mainly attracted to photographs that stimulated his imagination, and his taste ran toward the idiosyncratic—images that surprised him chiefly because he had never seen them before. In choosing the 147 works reproduced in this volume, Paul Martineau selected masterpieces as well as images from obscure sources: daguerreotypes, cartes-de-visite, and stereographs, plus mug shots, medical photographs, and works by unknown makers. The latter category contains some of the most outstanding objects in the collection, demonstrating Wagstaff’s willingness to position unfamiliar images alongside works by established masters as well as underrepresented contemporary artists of the time, including Jo Ann Callis, William Garnett, and Edmund Teske. This book is published to accompany an eponymous exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 to July 31, 2016; at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, from September 10 to December 11, 2016; and at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, ME, from February 1 to April 30, 2017.

Author : Graeme Farnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1907697853

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The Photograph and the Collection by Graeme Farnell Pdf

A museum or gallery's holdings of photographs will very often form its single largest collection. But the images a visitor experiences there are not always readily understandable. In fact, understanding a photograph can be every bit as challenging as reading a painting. And yet the potential of images for communication, learning and involvement is huge - and largely untapped. The Photograph and The Collection brings together a rich variety of perspectives which explore the four key processes of creation, preservation, analysis and presentation. Many focus on the photograph album - itself a "curated experience" - and they span the analogue and the digital, the published and the private. This substantial 660-page book - lavishly illustrated with more than 200 colour photographs - aims to be a helpful and stimulating guide to maximising the power and effectiveness of photographic collections

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : OCLC:950054263

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Looking at photographs by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Walsh,Deborah Gribbon
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892364763

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The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections by John Walsh,Deborah Gribbon Pdf

Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty

Author : Andrew H. Eskind,Greg Drake,Kirsti Ringger,Lynne Rumney
Publisher : G K Hall
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0783821492

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Index to American Photographic Collections by Andrew H. Eskind,Greg Drake,Kirsti Ringger,Lynne Rumney Pdf

A source for locating works by particular photographers, this research index describes the holdings of American photographic collections, large and small. This third, enlarged edition is organized in two sections: the collections listing is arranged geographically and includes the name of the collection, contact information, and holdings information for 585 collections; the photographers listing lists 65,000 photographers alphabetically by name, significant dates when available, and references to collections that include the photographers work. Encompassing collections in museums, university and public libraries, art galleries, newspaper and magazine archives, historical societies, and other institutions, Index to American Photographic Collections provides a comprehensive source of information.

Author : Thomas Struth,Hans Belting,Walter Grasskamp,Claudia Seidel
Publisher : Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Photography
ISBN : 3829601832

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Thomas Struth by Thomas Struth,Hans Belting,Walter Grasskamp,Claudia Seidel Pdf

A new ed. of Struth's "Museum photographs", adding 26 additional images which include pictures of artworks at their original locations.

Author : Anthony Alan Shelton
Publisher : Figure 1 Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1773271377

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Theatrum Mundi by Anthony Alan Shelton Pdf

Theatrum Mundi ("the theatre of the world") describes the diversity of masks and performances that originated from the violent struggles between European, Arabic and "New World" civilizations. This authoritative study celebrates over 500 years of Mexican and South American Indigenous dance dramas and explains how mask makers, religious practitioners, masqueraders and entrepreneurs have helped to continuously reinvent, revitalize and express the changing world around them. The culmination of four decades of research by Dr. Anthony Shelton, professor of art history and director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia, the text is illustrated by field photographs and images from MOA and other notable mask collections

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015031204574

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Looking at Photographs by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),John Szarkowski Pdf

Originally published in 1973, this marvelous collection of photographs with accompanying texts by the revered late Museum of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski has long been recognized as a classic. Reissued in 1999-with new digital duotones-this volume is now available to a new generation of readers. "This is a picture book, and its first purpose is to provide the material for simple delectation," says Szarkowski in his introduction to this first survey of The Museum of Modern Art's photography collection. A visually splendid album, the book is both a treasury of remarkable photographs and a lively introduction to the aesthetics and the historical development of photography. Since 1930, when the Museum accessioned its first photograph, it has assembled an extraordinary and wide-ranging collection of pictures for preservation, study and exhibition. Among the outstanding figures represented here are Hill and Adamson, Cameron, O'Sullivan, Atget, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, Weston, Kertesz, Evans, Cartier-Bresson, Lange, Brassai, Ansel Adams, Shomei Tomatsu, Frank, Arbus and Friedlander. Some of these photographs are classics, familiar and well-loved favorites, many are surprising, little-known works by the masters of the art.

Author : J. Paul Getty Museum,Weston J. Naef
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015040320213

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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Photographs Collection by J. Paul Getty Museum,Weston J. Naef Pdf

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum began collecting photographs in 1984, it has formed one of the greatest photography collections in the world. Weston Naef, Curator of Photographs, has selected more than two hundred of the most important images from the Museum's collection and written commentaries on each. Ranging in date from the 1830s to the 1960s, these photographs provide a brief history of the art of photography and offer a wide-ranging survey of the Getty's holdings. Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, Eugene Atget, Andre Kertesz, Walker Evans, and Diane Arbus are among the more than one hundred artists whose works are reproduced in this beautiful volume. Also included is an index of the photographers whose work is represented in the Museum's collection.

Author : Bertrand Lavédrine
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Photograph collections
ISBN : 0892367016

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A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections by Bertrand Lavédrine Pdf

A resource for the photographic conservator, conservation scientist, curator, as well as professional collector, this volume synthesizes both the masses of research that has been completed to date and the international standards that have been established on the subject.

Author : Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1315549409

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Uncertain Images by Elizabeth Edwards,Sigrid Lien Pdf

"Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums"--Provided by publisher.