Ecosystems, non-Collections and Infrastructures: Museums and the work of photographs
Photographs play a fundamental role in the definition and management of museums and their collections. In this talk Professor Elizabeth Edwards suggests the extent to which one might argue that museums are held together by their photographic practices. Yet these processes are largely invisible in their quotidian presence, spread across collections management, conservation, display and marketing for instance.
Professor Elizabeth Edwards.
With ever-growing interest in the history of museums and collections and their representational practices, she argues that the practices of photography in museums and the blurred borderlands between collections and non-collections form an institutional subconscious, revealing the ways in which values are reproduced and maintained.
Edwards is basing her discussion on many years experience as a museum curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, as a visual anthropologist and more recently as Andrew W. Mellon, Visiting Professor, at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Published Nov. 15, 2024 11:54 AM
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