Museums and photography : displaying death /: displaying death. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Elena Stylianou and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert.
• Authors: Stylianou, Elena
• Editors: Stylianou, Elena; Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti
• Contents: Approaches to Displaying Death in Museums: An Introduction; Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert PART I: EVIDENCING 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: EMPAPHY 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;
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 069.5; Museums and photography; Death -- Social aspects; Photographs -- Social aspects; Photography -- Social aspects; Museums -- Social aspects; Museum exhibits; Museums -- Collection management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317528968; 9781317528975; 9781317528951; 9781315723778
• Related ISBNs: 9781138852044
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