All The Names: Collections and Historical Research. The Magalhães Nobre Stereo Collection
| Autor: | Teresa Mendes Flores |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Cultural Studies
History Visual Arts and Performing Arts Museology 05 social sciences Photography Public institution 050801 communication & media studies language.human_language Visual arts Politics 0508 media and communications 050903 gender studies language History of photography Comparative historical research 0509 other social sciences Portuguese Visual culture |
| Zdroj: | Photography and Culture. 11:323-346 |
| ISSN: | 1751-4525 1751-4517 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17514517.2018.1487153 |
| Popis: | There is no history of photography without the preservation of past photographs. This article addresses the politics underlying the admissions of photography collections by public museums and their role in shaping the history of photography. It particularly focuses on photography collections with anonymous authors in Portuguese public institutions. Although there has been much change during recent decades regarding the acceptance of photographic collections by unknown photographers, the majority of the collections mapped by the recent Lusofona University study on Portuguese stereo visual culture have well-established authors. We argue that anonymous productions are important to the understanding of the Portuguese visual culture because they mostly represent common uses of the media. This article presents one of these collections, the Magalhaes Nobre Collection. The first part discusses the results of the study regarding the origin of Portuguese stereo collections and their admissions. In addition,... |
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