Museums and Photography

Approaches to Displaying Death in Museums: An Introduction
Elena Stylianou & Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert

PART I: EVIDENCING THE PAST
Negotiating Death at the Great Kanto Earthquake Memorial Museum
J. M. Hammond

Honoring the dead: photography and the display of the Jewish Necropolis at the Jewish
Museum of Thessaloniki
Iro Katsaridou

"Death from the skies." Photographs in museums of the aerial bombing of civilians during World War Two
Sheila Watson

Saints, Martyrs and Heroes: "Sacred Displays" or the Iconography of Death in Cypriot Museums
Yiannis Toumazis

PART II: THE SPECTABLE OF DEATH
The War/Photography Exhibition and the Display of Death
Jean Kempf

"Persons Unknown": Lynching Photographs in the Museum
RM Wolff

Human Skulls and Photographs of Dead Bandits: the Problems of Presenting a Nineteenth Century Museum to Twenty-First-Century-Audiences
Silvano Montaldo and Eleanor Chiari

Our First Murder: Exhibiting Evidence outside the Police Archive
Stella Pekiaridi

PART III: EMPAPHY AND RESTORING ANONYMITY
A Gallery of Martyrs - The Martyr in the Gallery: Public Display and the Artistic Appropriation of Martyr Images in the Middle East
Verena Straub

What Will You Remember When I'm Gone? Funerary Photography in the Gallery's Public / Private Space
Rosanne Altstatt

Remediating Death at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum
Rachel Perry

Photography and the Museum: visiting the sight of Death
Pam Meecham

PART IV: MUSEUMS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE
Double Exposure: Absence and Evidence in Ken Gonzales-Day's Erased Lynching
Reilley Bishop-Stall

On May 1, 2011 (Alfredo Jaar, 2011) - Expanding the Frame of the Original Photograph
Mafalda Damaso

Photography as a form of taxidermy: Zoe Leonard's Preserved Head of a Bearded Woman, Musee Orfila
Chelsea Nichols