Author: National Maritime Museum (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Naval museums
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Four Maritime Photograph Collections
Author: National Maritime Museum (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval museums
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval museums
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Photographs, Museums, Collections
Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147252733X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147252733X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections
Author: Bertrand Lavédrine
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 9780892367016
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
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.
Guide to Photographic Collections at the Smithsonian Institution: National Museum of American History
Author: Smithsonian Institution
Publisher:
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Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Fortitudine
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Maritime Information: a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom, 2004 Fourth Edition
Author: Mike Macdonald
Publisher: Ships in Focus Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Maritime Information Guide provides a list of UK libraries, record offices, archives, museums, institutions, associations and other bodies that have, or can make available, information on maritime matters. Titles are listed in alphabetical order by the name by which users are most likely to look up. This is the fourth volume, produced in 2004, following the previous editions in 1973, 1983, and 1993.
Publisher: Ships in Focus Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Maritime Information Guide provides a list of UK libraries, record offices, archives, museums, institutions, associations and other bodies that have, or can make available, information on maritime matters. Titles are listed in alphabetical order by the name by which users are most likely to look up. This is the fourth volume, produced in 2004, following the previous editions in 1973, 1983, and 1993.
Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Time Measurement
Author: Science Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher:
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Category : Chronometers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronometers
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Recent Geographical Literature, Maps, and Photographs Added to the Society's Collection
Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States: Index
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Administration
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Prologue
Author:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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