A Gust of Photo-Philia
Photography in the Art Museum
Alexandra Moschovi
The
first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museum
Photography was long
regarded as a “middlebrow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the
millennium it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part
institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and
practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in
and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions
and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the
V&A, and the Centre Pompidou offer new insights into how art as photography
and photography as art have been collected and exhibited since the 1930s.
Moschovi argues that this accommodation not only changed photography’s status
in art, culture, and society, but also played a significant role in the
rebranding of the art museum as a cultural and social site.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Format: Monograph - paperback
Size: 230 × 170 mm
384 pages
ISBN: 9789462702424
Publication: November 30, 2020
Series: Lieven Gevaert Series 29
Languages: English