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  • Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs

    by Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien ...
    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 ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Pictures of Longing

    Photography and the Norwegian-American Migration

    by Sigrid Lien ...
    Translated by Barbara Sjoholm ...
    Haunting and revealing photographs sent home by Norwegian immigrants in America as visual document and collective expression of the emigrant experienceBetween 1836 and 1915, in what has been called history’s largest population migration, more than 750,000 Norwegians emigrated to North America. Writing home, the newcomers sent thousands of pictures—America–photographs, as they are called in Norway. ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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    In this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the ... Read more

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  • Retromania

    The Funkiest Cameras of Photography's Golden Age

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  • Uses of Heritage

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  • Fixie For Life

    Urban Fixed-Gear Style and Culture

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  • Civilizing the Museum

    The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

    by Elaine Heumann Gurian ...
    Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all.Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making ... Read more

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  • Museum Texts

    Comunication Frameworks

    by Louise Ravelli ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Answering key questions in the study of how museums communicate, Louise Ravelli provides a set of frameworks to investigate the complexities of communication in museums:* What is an appropriate level of complexity for a written label?* Why do some choice in language make a more direct relation to visitors?* Is there a correct way of presenting a particular view of content?* How do design practices ... Read more

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  • Museums and Photography

    Displaying Death

    by Elena Stylianou, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums—history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums – and to understand the changing role of photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of photography ... Read more

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  • The Semiotics of Movement in Space

    by Robert James McMurtrie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning ... Read more

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  • Holly Barker Behind the Photo

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    Holly takes you behind the photo in some of her best works to date and gives you tips on how to get the shot you have dreamed of. She includes key tips to help get you published and behind the photo secrets that you don't see by just looking at a great picture. Have you dreamed of being on the cover of a magazine? Have you dreamed of writing an article and having it published? Have you ever wished ... Read more

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  • Fashion and Museums

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Marie Riegels Melchior, Birgitta Svensson ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Why is fashion "in fashion" in museums today? This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice.Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan ... Read more

    $36.99 USD