Museums and photography : displaying death / edited by Elena Stylianou and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stylianou, Elena, editor.

Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in museum studies ; 11.

Routledge research in museum studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums and photography.

Death--Social aspects.

Death.

Photographs--Social aspects.

Photographs.

Photography--Social aspects.

Photography.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Museum exhibits.

Museums--Collection management.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 322 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

"Museums and Photography adopts a strong theoretical approach in an in-depth investigation of the distinct approaches that different museums employ in displaying photographs of death, considering a broad range of anthropology, history, art, ethnographic, and science collections. These often interrelated approaches include: evidencing the past, death as spectacle, restoring anonymity and instigating empathy, and museums as agents of change. As well as offering fresh insights into the varied museum strategies implemented for the photographic display of death, the editors also critically engage with recent debates concerning the changing role of museums and museums' responsibility in handling an immensely controversial photographic genre"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Approaches to displaying death in museums : an introduction / Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

Part ievidencing the past

Negotiating death at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum / J.M. Hammond

Honoring the dead : photography and the display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki / Iro Katsaridou

"Death from the skies" : photographs in museums of the aerial bombing of civilians during World War Two / Sheila Watson

Saints, martyrs and heroes : "sacred displays" or the iconography of death in Cypriot museums / Yiannis Toumazis

Part II. The spectable of death

The war/photography exhibition and the display of death / Jean Kempf

"Persons unknown" : lynching photographs in the museum / RM Wolff

Human skulls and photographs of dead bandits : the problems of presenting a nineteenth century museum to twenty-first-century-audiences / Silvano Montaldo and Eleanor Chiari

Our first murder : exhibiting evidence outside the police archive / Stella Pekiaridi

Part III. Empathy and restoring anonymity

A gallery of martyrs, the martyr in the gallery : public display and the artistic appropriation of martyr images in the Middle East / Verena Straub

What will you remember when I'm gone? : funerary photography in the gallery's public/private space / Rosanne Altstatt

Remediating death at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum / Rachel Perry

Photography and the museum : visiting the sight of death / Pam Meecham

Part IV. Museums as agents of change

Double exposure : absence and evidence in Ken Gonzales-Day's erased lynching / Reilley Bishop-Stall

On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar, 2011) : expanding the frame of the original photograph / Mafalda Dâmaso

Photography as a form of taxidermy : Zoe Leonard's preserved head of a bearded woman, Musée Orfila / Chelsea Nichols.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138852044

113885204X

OCLC:

953439998