What photographs do: the making and remaking of museum cultures

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Museum cultures of photography: an introduction / Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious -- Little marks of ownership: photographic postcards and the culture of the museum, 1913-39 / Elizabeth Edwards --The museum an the image factory: the South Kinsignton Museum, the Brothers Dalziel and the making of Victorian museum catalgoues / Bethan Stevens -- The image as asset / Tom Windross -- The official museum photographer: Isabel Agnes Cowper / Erika Lederman -- Photography the Eltenberg Reliquary / Ken Jackson -- Photographing theatre and performance / Graham Brandon -- Collecting India: photographs, pedagogy and power / Divia Patel -- The digitized Guard Books: another history / Steve Woodhouse -- Condition report: drawing things together / Simon Fleury -- Revisiting the K.A.C. Creswell photographs of Islamic architecture / Omniya Abdel Barr -- Two dimensions among three: museum photography in the V&A's refurbished Cast Courts / Angus Patterson -- A submerged collection: photographs in the National Art Library, 1853-1977 / Ella Ravilious -- Revitalising research: the fall and rise of the furniture image collection / Kate Hay -- In the Photographic Studio / Richard Davis -- The backs of things / George Eksts -- Computations and complications: value systems of institutional photography / Catherine Troiano.