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Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History edited by Costanza Caraffa Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin [etc.] 2011 I mandorli, 14 368 pages ISBN 978-3-422-07029-5 As photography became more widespread after about 1850, art museums, university art departments and art historians began to commission and collect photographs of artworks, storing them in photographic archives originally established to serve the needs of scholars. Today, these photo archives - through objects they preserve - document changes in the art-historical canon. In the shared histories and parallel developments of these collections, as both a significant record of the history of photography as well as the visual memory of the history of art, it becomes apparent how closely the discipline and the technology are interwoven. The essays, originally presented at conferences in London and Florence, and collected here in revised form, investigate the phenomenon of art reproduction, the scholarly use of photography and the institutionalization of photo archives. The main themes which emerge to link the contributions are the materiality of the photographic object and the archive itself, as an indispensable site of scholarship - not only for the history and the historiography of art. |
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