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- Title
What Do Museum Objects Want? Re‐Thinking Photographic Conventions In Ethnographic Museums.
- Abstract
This paper critiques the visual conventions applied to the photography of ethnographic museum collection objects. To "think photographically" in a museum collection, I draw a productive parallel between my fieldwork with Indigenous women artists in central Australia, and photography of poorly documented museum collection objects. I explore the presence of an intersubjective affective gaze in the central Australian Indigenous art works which is amplified through photography. This resistance inspired an experimental exhibition entailing photography of sculptural museum objects with faces. The exhibit's aim was to resocialize these objects into the present through photographs of them.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; ABORIGINAL Australian art; PHOTOGRAPHY exhibitions; INDIGENOUS women; MUSEUMS; WOMEN artists
- Publication
Visual Anthropology Review, 2022, Vol 38, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1058-7187
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/var.12265