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… and finished with a super engaging and brilliant keynote by Chitra Ramalingam throwing provocative questions on preservation conundrums of early #photography - noting that no single ‘pure’ copy of Talbot’s Pencil of Nature exists @bodleianlibs
@beastruz Don’t remember if it’s necessarily the best example for teaching though, as I remember the essay taking many pages to slowly tease out layers of meaning
@beastruz Joan Schwartz’s essay “the archival garden” does this with half of a William England stereo-pair in National Gallery of Canada and Library and Archives Canada. Aesthetic framework vs documentary framework
@eayers0 @DrVerityBurke @NCaomhanach @EllieTheElement and @Kopo_Oromeng ran a workshop last year for students at UDel on approaches to mineralogy collections that I was a part of, and I know they collected a lot of resources for students for this - they might have a suggestion?
@eayers0 @DrVerityBurke @NCaomhanach i've looked for this too, and haven't found it. I agree there's a need. for 1 specific methodology: I do like Alberti's "museum nature" or "objects and the museum" as a short and sweet intro to the possibilities of the object biography approach for natural history specimens
these photos beautifully document a) how incredibly rich the Yale Peabody HST collection is as an archive of photographic practice in science and b) why visual/material culture research is an obvious risk factor for lower back pain
Dr. Chitra Ramalingam’s GEEX Talks lecture premieres tonight at 6:15 PM US Central! @architraved@pghglasscenter
In the lecture, Dr. Ramalingam examines and troubles the glassiness of the scientific archive and re-asserts its material nature.
LINK: https://t.co/X9s1LiQDmU [1/3]
one of my students is doing a research project on museum gift shops and British identity, partly inspired by @aaprocter on Tipu's Tiger at the V&A shop. are there other key writings out there on museum shops they should read & cite?
Had so much fun preparing & recording this talk on the glassiness of the photographic archive of science... and am so looking forward to the Q&A. Such a great series run by lovely ppl with a well thought out asynchronous model for virtual talks & I'm thrilled to be part of it!
Next week: Dr. Chitra Ramalingam’s GEEX Talks lecture premieres on Monday, April 4, at 6:15 PM US Central! @architraved
Dr. Ramalingam explores how glass has been implicated in how we understand the natural world – whether mirror, memory, or something entirely different. [1/3]
HOW TO BE AN EXPERT - our latest essays&reviews section for @HSNatSci takes on expertise and its discontents, with contributions from a brilliant lineup of historians and STS scholars
Co-edited by Henry Cowles and Chitra Ramalingam, HOW TO BE AN EXPERT @HSNatSci 52/1 (2022): 118-146. Read their Introduction here: https://t.co/QlorpfxT77 #histSTM
is there an interesting art history/visual culture/museum studies analysis out there of the "flat lay" and its recent proliferation in product photography and social media?