curating the space
“The image content is usually what we pay attention to in a photograph but photographs are objects too. It is as objects that they move through space and time.”
Alison Nordström www.foam.org/foam-amsterdam/ exhibitions/whatsnext/nordstrom
The first question is of course: What will we see when we enter the first room of the exhibition The Future of The Photography Museum? What you will see is: things. Most of them will be presented conventionally, with mats and frames, the way we usually present photographs. But there will also be one large photographic collage hanging in the middle of the room and a contemporary daguerreotype in a case. You will see things that are for the most part not simply flat pieces of photographic paper. They will have been altered in some way or presented in some way that emphasizes their materiality. You are looking at things in such a way that you won’t confuse the image and the object. This is my hope for this little show.
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