Uncertain Images

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"Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums"--Provided by publisher.

subjects: Photograph collections,  Museums,  Photography,  Museums and photography,  Photographs,  Social aspects,  Musées et photographie,  Collections de photographies,  Photographies,  Aspect social,  Photographie,  Musées,  Museum,  Photoarchiv,  Sammlung,  Ausstellung