Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs

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Contents: Introduction: Museums and the work of photographs, Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien. The Affective Photograph: Museums and the emotional afterlife of colonial photography, Wayne Modest 'I know these streets': photographs, affective environments, and the display of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Shawn M. Reming Jr. Curatorial Strategies 1: Working Images: Photography and the crisis of ethnographic display, Hilde Nielssen Negative space: tracing absent images in the National Museums Scotland's collections, Chantal Knowles. Curatorial Strategies 2: Photographic Art Works: The aesthetics of the bear hunt: contemporary photography in the ecology of a Sami museum, Sigrid Lien Haunted topographies: landscape photography as an act of remembrance in the Neues Museum, Berlin, Tonje Haugland Sorensen. Curatorial Strategies 3: Contested Stories: The story of the Netherlands-Indies: the use of photographs in the Centre of Indies Remembrance, Pamela Pattynama Heroic stories or indigenous perspectives? Polar expedition photographs in Norwegian museum exhibitions, Lena Aarekol. Working in the Real World: Curating 'a good type': Japanese 'art' photographs in an anthropological archive, David Odo Military matters: approaches to the photographic collection of the Dutch Army Museum, Casper van Bruggen Looking at culture: visualizing anthropology at a university museum, Ira Jacknis. Digital Environments and Photograph Collections: Digital dilemmas: the impact of digital tools on photograph collections, Kajsa Hartig Observations from the interface: photography, ethnography, and digital projects at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Christopher Morton. Index.