{"product_id":"what-photographs-do-the-making-and-remaking-of-museum-cultures-paperback","title":"What Photographs Do: The Making and Remaking of Museum Cultures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eElla Ravilious\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collective case study of photographic culture through the lens of the Victoria and Albert Museum.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A massive quantity of museums' photographic holdings resides not on gallery walls or archives, but outside of their formal collections, including reference photos and ephemera that are integral to the workings of museums. \u003ci\u003eWhat Photographs Do\u003c\/i\u003e explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. Studied through the prism of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, this collection asks complex and ambiguous questions about how accumulations of photographs create the values, hierarchies, histories, and knowledge systems of a museum ecosystem. Chapters are comprised of short, auto-ethnographic interventions from museum practitioners, from studio photographers and image managers to conservators and non-photographic curators, who address the significance of both historical and contemporary practices of photography in their work, providing an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs do in museums while also expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emerita of photographic history at De Montfort University and honorary professor at UCL's department of anthropology. \u003cb\u003eElla Ravilious\u003c\/b\u003e is curator of architecture and design at the Victoria and Albert Museum. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 354\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47473287692466,"sku":"9781800082991","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/d13b371648398dda5d0fd3e799991fc1.webp?v=1779125824","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/what-photographs-do-the-making-and-remaking-of-museum-cultures-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}