1st Edition

Photo Archives and the Place of Photography

Edited By Geraldine A. Johnson, Deborah Schultz Copyright 2025
246 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of chapters investigates the effects of mobility and place on a range of photographic archives and explores their potential for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The book explores photographic images used in the study of art, as well as the implications of placing European images of non-European cultures in an archive, album, library, or museum. It also addresses questions of digital... Read more

Part 1 Archival Processes and Places

1. Photographs in Place in Archives and the Writing of Photography’s History

Joan M. Schwartz

2. The Place of Photographs in an Archive and the Place of German Wissenschaft in Italy

Costanza Caraffa

3. Transports of Vision: Geopiety and Frederic Edwin Church’s Photographic Collection of the Mediterranean and Middle East

Frederick N. Bohrer

4. Translating the Work of Art: Photo Archives and Institutional Memory in Oxford

Deborah Schultz

Part 2 Positioning the Photographic Object

5. Archiving Royal Heirlooms in the Age of Mass Reproduction: The Publication of the Crown Treasures of the Galerie d’Apollon at the Louvre and Early Color Photography

Pascal Griener

6. "The Days Before Railways and Photographs": Berenson’s Photographic Archive and the Displacements of Art History

Geraldine A. Johnson

7. The Archive in Transition: Reframing Josef Sudek’s Photographic Reproductions of Art

Katarina Mašterova

8. The Family of Man as Archive and Place

Shamoon Zamir

9. Reciprocating Place: Photo Archives and Bedouin in the Naqab Desert

Emilie Le Febvre

Part 3 Dislocating and Dematerializing Photographic Archives

10. Displacing the Photograph: The Photographic Image

Geoffrey Batchen

11. Out of Place in Cyberspace: Living Digital Archives in Contemporary Iranian Pasts

Shireen Walton

12. Places of Photography and Phases of Digitization

Nina Lager Vestberg

Biography

Geraldine A. Johnson is Head of the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford and a College Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford.

Deborah Schultz is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Regent’s University, London.