Materiality of Exhibition Photography in the Modernist Era

<p>This book challenges the status quo of the materiality of exhibited photographs by considering examples from the early to mid-twentieth century when photography’s place in the museum was not only continually questioned but also continually redefined.</p><p>By taking this historical approach Laurie Taylor demonstrates the ways in which materiality (as opposed to image) was used to privilege the exhibited photograph as either an artwork or as non-art information. Consequently the exhibited photograph is revealed like its vernacular cousins to be a social object whose material form far from being supplemental is instead integral and essential to the generation of meaning.</p><p>The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history history of photography theory of photography curatorial studies and museum studies.</p>