Museums and Photography

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- 1 Approaches to Displaying Death in Museums: an Introduction -- Part I Evidencing the Past -- 2 Negotiating Death at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum -- 3 Honoring the Dead: photography and the Display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki -- 4 "Death From the Skies" Photographs in Museums of the Aerial Bombing of Civilians During World War Two -- 5 Saints, Martyrs and Heroes: "Sacred Displays" or the Iconography of Death in Cypriot Museums -- Part II The Spectacle of Death -- 6 The War/Photography Exhibition and the Display of Death -- 7 Persons Unknown: lynching Photographs in the Museum -- 8 Human Skulls and Photographs of Dead Bandits: the Problems of Presenting a Nineteenth-Century Museum to Twenty-First-Century Audiences -- 9 Our First Murder: exhibiting Evidence Outside the Police Archive -- Part III Empathy and Escaping Anonymity -- 10 A Gallery of Martyrs - the Martyr in the Gallery: public Display and the Artistic Appropriation of Martyr Images in the Middle East -- 11 What Will You Remember When I'm Gone? Funerary Photography in the Gallery's Public/Private Space -- 12 Remediating Death at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum -- 13 Photography and the Museum: visiting the Sight of Death -- Part IV Museums as Agents of Change -- 14 Double Exposure: absence and Evidence in Ken Gonzales-Day's Erased Lynching -- 15 On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar, 2011)-Expanding the Frame of the Original Photograph -- 16 Photography as a Form of Taxidermy: Zoe Leonard's Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman, Musée Orfila -- Index