Absent Histories and Absent Images: Photographs, Museums and the Colonial Past

Based on research in a range of UK museums, this paper explores the visibility and invisibility of the photographic legacy of colonial relations and the representation of the colonial past in museum galleries. It explores the conditions of the ‘invisibility’ and ‘disavowal’ of the colonial past in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Elizabeth Edwards, Matt Mead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2013-03-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/220