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From Photo-phobia to Photo-Philia: Institutionalising Photography in Post-war Britain

Moschovi, Alexandra (2023) From Photo-phobia to Photo-Philia: Institutionalising Photography in Post-war Britain. In: Photography and the Museum: Processes of and Chances for Institutionalizing the Medium, 01 Dec 2023, Photography Network Online. (Unpublished)

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Abstract

This presentation sought to sketch a diagrammatic picture of the politics and institutional idiosyncracies that affected photography’s institutionalisation as an independent art in British art and media museums in the 1970s and 1980s, at a time when museums themselves were also undergoing significant structural changes.

The presentation formed part of the session: Photography and the Museum: Processes of and Chances for Institutionalizing the Medium

Long regarded as a “middle-brow” art, at the turn of the twentieth century, photography emerged as a well-established and popular contemporary art medium. The session explores the institutions, processes, and discourses that were instrumental in the institutionalization of photography as an independent contemporary art, and specifically the impact of its belated accommodation in the art museum. Focusing on different case studies from the UK, Greece, and Croatia, this event seeks to shed light on the perplexities behind photography’s institutionalization in these respective countries and the developments that led to the establishment of institutions addressing photography in different ways. It also seeks to reflect on photography’s possible institutional futures.

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Uncontrolled Keywords: photography, institutionalisation, museum, exhibitions, collecting, New British Documentary, Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, National Science and Media Museum
Depositing User: Alexandra Moschovi

Identifiers

Item ID: 17231
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/17231
Official URL: https://www.photographynetwork.net/news/photograph...

Users with ORCIDS

ORCID for Alexandra Moschovi: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6101-3970

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Date Deposited: 22 Jan 2024 09:06
Last Modified: 22 Jan 2024 09:06

Contributors

Author: Alexandra Moschovi ORCID iD
Speaker: Iro Katsaridou
Speaker: Sandra Križić Roban

University Divisions

Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries > School of Art and Design

Subjects

Fine Art > Curating
Photography > Documentary Photography
Photography

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