General Information

Language

English.

Published

London, Bloomsbury : 2015.

Physical Description

267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1952- (editor.)

Morton, Christopher A., (editor.)

Subjects

Subject

Photograpy > Museums.

Photograph collections.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton.

Content

pt. 1. Introduction -- Between art and information: towards a collecting history of photographs / Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) and Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK) -- pt. 2. Becoming Collections -- Multiple collections and fluid meanings: Alfred Maudslay's archaeological photographs at the British Museum / Duncan Shields (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- Self assembled: Isabella Stewart Gardner's Photographic Albums and the Development of her Museum, 1902-1924 / Casey Riley (Boston University, USA) -- 'An Invitation to Visit Windermere': moments of departure and return in the biography of the Bryan Heseltine Collection / Darren Newbury (University of Brighton, UK) -- Private to public: the David MacGregor Maritime Photographic Collection / Eleni Papavasileiou (SS Great Britain Trust, UK) -- pt. 3. Scientific Documents -- Collecting portraiture, exhibiting race: Augustus Pitt-Rivers's photographs at the South Kensington Museum / Christopher Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK) -- Collecting photographs, constructing disciplines: the rationality and rhetoric of photography at the Museum of Economic Botany / Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway, UK) -- Photographs as scientific and social objects in the correspondence of Charles Darwin / Geoff Belknap (University of Leicester) and Sophie Defrance (University of Cambridge) -- pt. 4. Shaped in History -- Revolutionary photographs: the Museo de la Revolucion, Havana, Cuba / Kristine Juncker (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- Photography in Jersey under German Occupation: the 1940 'Order concerning open-air photography' and photography at the Societe Jersiaise Museum / Gareth Syvret (De Montfort University, Leicester, UK) -- From them to us: changing meanings of photographs of Maori at Te Papa / Athol McCredie (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) -- pt. 5. Curatorial Practices -- Unwrapping the layers: translating photograph albums into an exhibition context / Ulrike Bessel (DASA Working World Exhibition in Dortmund, Germany) -- To collect and preserve negatives: the Eli Lotar Collection at the Centre Georges Pompidou / Damarice Amao (Paris Sorbonne, France) -- Looking for Bolton in the Worktown Archive / Caroline Edge (Bolton Museum/University, UK).

ISBN

9781472524928

9781472533920

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Archival, library and information sciences collection	770.74 EDW		Reference	-

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