"Photo Archives And The Place Of Photography

This collection of chapters investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The book explores photographic images used in the study of art as well as the implications of placing European images of non-European cultures in an archive album library or museum. It also addresses questions of digital space which renders images more visually accessible but further complicates issues relating to location. The contributors consider these issues through case studies based on a variety of archives institutions and disciplines. Just as photographs are conceived as unstable objects so conventional borders between disciplines and locations are challenged and opened up with chapters drawing on a range of disciplinary theories and practices. The focus of the individual chapters is global as seen in contributions not only on Euro-American topics but also on Orientalizing approaches to photographing the Ancient Near East photographic archives of Bedouin subjects and digital photographic archives in an Iranian context. This book will be of interest to scholars of art history visual and cultural studies anthropology and archaeology as well as those working on the history and theory of photography and histories and theories of the archive. |Photo Archives and the Place of Photography