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What Photographs Do explores the photographic archives of the V&A to understand how museums are defined through their photographic practices.

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9781800082991

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'offer(s) a rare internal point of view on their relationship to the photographic object and its place in the functioning of the institution.' Critique D'Art

'What Photographs Do, combines recent and urgent questions in the history of photography and museum practice with essays from often invisible museum practitioners, such as museum photographers, digital teams and conservators. As a result, this is the first book-length investigation of the material and human traces of what Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien have called the ecosystem of photographic images in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) settings' Science Museum Group Journal 'offer(s) a rare internal point of view on their relationship to the photographic object and its place in the functioning of the institution.' Critique D'Art

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Elizabeth Edwards is a visual and historical anthropologist and has written extensively about the institutional life of photographs, especially in museums. She was Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, London 2016-22. She is Professor Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester, and also Honorary Professor in the Department of Anthropology UCL. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2015. Ella Ravilious is Curator: Architecture and Design in the Art, Architecture, Photography and Design Department at the V&A. She is studying part-time for an AHRC-funded PhD on the history of the V&A's photography collection at the Photographic History Research Centre at De Montfort University, Leicester.

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