Appel à publication : « Museums and Photography : Displaying Death »

Museums and Photography

Deadline: Feb 10, 2014

Museums and Photography: Displaying Death  Edited Volume

This is an open call for submissions for an edited volume on
 the ways in which death is displayed in museums through 
photography. The editors seek submissions that investigate 
theoretically and/or through specific international case studies 
the complexities of displaying photographs of death in a museum context. 
Submissions are expected to contribute to ourunderstanding of the changing role
of photography in museums and of themuseum's ethical, pedagogical and political 
responsibilities for addressing diverse audiences with the display of death through 
photography.

More specifically, contributors might consider, but are not confined to,the following 
themes relevant to the display of death in museums through photography:

- Making visible the effects of violence, war or brutality on the human
body 
- The display of death through absence(s)
- War, Memorial, or Holocaust museums and photographs of death as documents/ evidence
- Artistic photography and the display of death in museums
- Documentary photography, death and art
- Vernacular (or other) photography in the museum
- The ethnographic versus the artistic display of death through photography
- Institutional versus artistic intentionality 
- Individual, collective historical narratives constructed, sustained or challenged
- The aestheticization of violence/death in the art museum through photography
- The political potential of museums that display photographs of death
- Visitor responses to the display of death and the question of empathy
- The issue of museums' ethical responsibility 
- The affective impact of photographs representing death in museum displays 
and meaning-making processes

Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a short biography of no more that 
150 words to Elena Stylianou at e.stylianou@euc.ac.cy 
and to Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert at theopisti.stylianou@cut.ac.cy by February 10, 2014.