What photographs do : the making and remaking of museum cultures / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
Published / Created:
London : UCL Press in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2022.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Open access
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/192312
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Museum cultures of photography: an introduction / Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious -- Little marks of ownership: photographic postcards and the culture of the museum, 1913-39 / Elizabeth Edwards --The museum and the image factory: the South Kensington Museum, the Brothers Dalziel and the making of Victorian museum catalogues / Bethan Stevens -- The image as asset / Tom Windross -- The official museum photographer: Isabel Agnes Cowper / Erika Lederman -- Photography the Eltenberg Reliquary / Ken Jackson -- Photographing theatre and performance / Graham Brandon -- Collecting India: photographs, pedagogy and power / Divia Patel -- The digitized Guard Books: another history / Steve Woodhouse -- Condition report: drawing things together / Simon Fleury -- Revisiting the K.A.C. Creswell photographs of Islamic architecture / Omniya Abdel Barr -- Two dimensions among three: museum photography in the V&A's refurbished Cast Courts / Angus Patterson -- A submerged collection: photographs in the National Art Library, 1853-1977 / Ella Ravilious -- Revitalising research: the fall and rise of the furniture image collection / Kate Hay -- In the Photographic Studio / Richard Davis -- The backs of things / George Eksts -- Computations and complications: value systems of institutional photography / Catherine Troiano.
Subject Terms:
Victoria and Albert Museum -- Photograph collections. | Museums and photography. | Photographs as information resources. | Victoria and Albert Museum. | Photographs as information resources. | Photograph collections. | Museums and photography.