Uncertain Images
Subtitle: Museums and the Work of Photographs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781409464891
Subjects: Photograph collections; Museums; Photography
Description: "Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums"--Provided by publisher.