Raw histories: photographs, anthropology, and museums; The ones that are wanted: communication and the politics of representation in a photographic exhibition

From: Anthropologica | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Elizabeth Edwards, Oxford: Berg, 2001, 270 pages.

Corinne Kratz, Los Angeles: University of California Press., 2002, 307 pages.

Reviewer: Julia Harrison Trent University

Edwards and Kratz engage their readers in stimulating narratives that challenge each of us to reflect on every photographic image that we know to be housed or exhibited in any museum or archive anywhere. Both books insist that the reader focus on what Edwards calls the "punctum, the inexplicable point of incisive clarity" of the photograph, and try to reflect all that one sees there (p. 1, italics in original). Elizabeth ...

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