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Contents 1. Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart: Introduction: Photographs as Objects. 2. Joan M. Schwartz: "Un beau souvenir du Canada:" Object, Image, Symbolic Space. 3. Geoff Batchen : Ere the Sunstance Fade: Photography and Hair Jewellery 4. Elizabeth Edwards & Janice Hart: Mixed Box: The cultural biography of a box of 'ethnographic' photographs. 5. Glenn Willumson: Making meaning: Displaced Materiality in the Library and Art Museum 6. Alison Nordström: Making a Journey: The Tupper Scrapbooks and the Travel they describe 7. Susan Legêne: Photographic Playing Cards and the Colonial Metaphor: Teaching the Dutch colonial culture. 8. Nuno Porto: 'Under the Gaze of the Ancestors' - photographs and performance in colonial Angola 9. Clare Harris: The Photograph Reincarnate: The Dynamics of Tibetan Relationships with Photography 10. Gabriel Hanganu: 'Photo-Cross': the political and devotional lives of a Romanian Orthodox photograph. 11. Richard Chalfen & Mui Murei: Print Club Photography in Japan: Framing Social Relationships. 12. Joanna Sassoon: Photographic Materiality in the Age of Digital Reproduction Illustrations Cover Dealey Plaza 1964. Photography by Garry Winogrand (c) The Estate of Garry Winogrand. (Courtesy of The Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona). Schwartz 2.1 Hand-coloured, half-plate daguerreotype of a man and four boys in historical costume, one of two taken following the St. Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations in Montreal, 1855. Photographer: Thomas Coffin Doane. (Courtesy: National Archives of Canada, Andre L'Homme Collection, 1985-011). Batchen 3. 1. Engraved Silver locket containing a tintype portrait of a man and human hair c.1855. Diameter 4 cm. Unknown American maker (Private Collection). 3.2. Tintype portrait of a young woman in an elliptical metal pendant on a chain, with two samples of human hair, c. 1860s. Pendant 3.4 x 2.5 cm . Unknown American maker (Private Collection). 3.2 Daguerrotype portrait of a man's head set into a bracelet of woven human hair, c.1850. 7.5 x 3 cm. Unknown American maker. (Courtesy of George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, [69.214.10]). Edwards & Hart 4.1 Box 54, the cards interleaved with archival paper. (Photograph by Malcolm Osman, courtesy of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). 4.2 Box 54 Card 13. Miscellaneous photographs mounted to form a sequence, including two separated stereoscopic photographs. (Courtesy of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). 4.3 Box 54 Card 5 . Six portraits of Native American elders by Charles M. Bell, arranged in a grid. (Courtesy of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). 4.4 Box 54 Card 9 . Pairs of photographs printed on single pieces of paper. (Courtesy of Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford). Willumson 5.1 D.M. Seaton European Travel Albums, 1898-1902, volume 5, page 95. (Courtesy of Getty Research Institute, Research Library). 5.2. Alfred Hart, 56. Rounding Cape Horn. Road to Iowa Hill from the River, in the Distance, 1866. (Private Collection). 5.3 Installation view of Carleton Watkins: The Art of Perception at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999. (Courtesy of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). 5.4 Carleton Watkins, View on the Columbia, Cascades, 1867. (Courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund and Horace Brisbane Dick Fund). Nordstrom 6.1 'Donkey boy waiting while tourist insects Temple" (T31.31) Photographer: Zangeki studio. (Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Print Department). 6.2 Cover of one of Tupper's albums; 'Canterbury, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Oxford, 1893" (T11). (Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Print Department). 6.3 Greece: royalty guarded by Zouaves (T21:1,2). Unknown photographer. (Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Print Department). 6.4 Egypt: climbing and 'constructing' the pyramids (T26:20). Unknown photographers. (Courtesy of Boston Public Library, Print Department). Legene 7.1 The reverse of the Indië Kwartetspel cards based on a Balinese painting of the Batuan style. (Courtesy of Tropen Museum Amsterdam). 7.2 The four cards making up the 'Transport' (Vervoer) series. (Courtesy of Tropen Museum Amsterdam). 7.3 The four cards making up the 'Types' (Volkstypen) series. All are created from cropping larger photographs. (Courtesy of Tropen Museum Amsterdam). 7.4 The original photograph of men from Madura ,c.1924, from which the 'Javanese type' was created. Photographer: F.A. Droste. (Courtesy of Tropen Museum Amsterdam). Porto 8.1 'The History Room of the Lunda and the Diamang' (Photographic Archive of the Ex-Diamang (box Exterior and Rooms) negative no. 8.280/1958. Courtesy of Museu Antropológico, University of Ciombra). 8.2 . The presentation of the framed portrait to Satxissenga. Annual Report of Dundo Museum, 1943, page 164. (Courtesy of Museu Antropológico, University of Ciombra). 8.3 Giving gifts of photographs to distinguished visitors. Report of the Grand Annual indigenous Feast. 1960, page 52. (Courtesy of Museu Antropológico, University of Ciombra). Harris 9.1 Dalai Lama photo-icon in the home of A Tibetan refugee, Lahakh, India, 1991. Photographer: Clare Harris. 9.2 Dalai Lama photo-icon in use in a Tibetan monastic building. Photographer: Clare Harris. 9.3 The 14th Dalai Lama depicted at Bodh Gaya India. Street stall photo-icon purchased in Dharamsala, Indina, 1992. Maker unknown. 9.4 The 14th Dalai Lama, 10th Panchen Lama and the Buddha. Street stall photo-icon depicted at Bodh Gaya India. Street stall photo-icon purchased in Lhasa, Tibet, 1993. Maker unknown. Hanganu 10.1 The 'Photo-Cross', a black and white photograph of an original photomontage by I.R., 1952. 10.2 Colour postcard of the monastery of Bisericani. In the centre is the locally venerated icon of the Mother of god. Unlike other Moldavian orthodox monasteries preserving famous old icons of Byzantine origin, the monastery of Bisericani has re-shaped its identity around a newer icon, locally revered for working miracles. Postcard published by Trinitas 1999, Purchased 2000. 10.3 I.R.'s icon shrine, Piatra Neamt. The mixture of styles, materials and production techniques is supplemented by the various provenances of the displayed items: purchsed, gifted or produced by I.R. himself. A hand-painted copy of I.R.'s Protection Veil montage (see figure 11.4) hangs to the centre left. Photograph: Gabriel Hanganu 2000. 10.4 The Protection Veil cast above the monastery of Vladimiresti: black and white postcard-sized photograph of an original photomontage by I.R., 1952. Chalfen & Murei 11.1 Vinyl curtains in front of cameras and monitors, featuring cartoon characters Doraemon, Poo-san (Winnie the Poo), Minnie Mouse and the very popular Hello Kitty. They advertise the particular features of individual Print Club machines. (Authors' photographs). 11.2 One of many machines featuring photo-sticker frames of popular music idols such as the Kinki Kids. 1999. (Authors' photograph). 11.3 Different image formats: full length frame, jigsaw, 'wanted' poster and calendar, 1998-9. (Authors' photographs). 11.4 Above: A sign at a popular tourist destination offering Purikura of the famous Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, and a multiple image produced on that machine. Below: An album specially designed to carry some 200 stickers: stickers permanently displayed on a mobile phone. (Authors' photographs). Sassoon 12.1 A screen from PictureAustralia. 12.2 The front and reverse of a photograph of Elsie Curtin neé Needham, 14th July 1942. (Records of the Curtin Family. Courtesy of the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library JCPML00376/15).
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Photography in anthropology, Photographs Social aspects, Material culture