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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451011203321

Titolo

Photographs objects histories : on the materiality of images / / edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-52357-2

0-203-59871-7

1-280-04845-X

0-203-50649-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Material cultures

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsElizabeth <1952->

HartJanice <1951->

Disciplina

306.4

Soggetti

Photography in anthropology

Photographs - Social aspects

Material culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: photographs as objects; Un beau souvenir du Canada: object, image, symbolic space; Ere the substance fade: photography and hair jewellery; Mixed box: the cultural biography of a box of 'ethnographic' photographs; Making meaning: displaced materiality in the library and art museum; Making a journey: the Tupper scrapbooks and the travel they describe; Photographic playing cards and the colonial metaphor: teaching the Dutch colonial culture

'Under the gaze of the ancestors': photographs and performance in colonial AngolaThe photograph reincarnate: the dynamics of Tibetan relationships with photography; 'Photo-cross': the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph; Print Club photography in Japan: framing social relationships; Photographic materiality in the age of digital reproduction; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. The case studies presented focus on photographs active in different institutional, political, religious and domestic spheres, where physical properties, the nature of their use and the cultural formations in which they function make their 'objectness' central to how we should understand them.The book's contributions are drawn from disciplines including the history of photography, visual anthropology and art history, with case studies