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The book is dense with Susan Andrews's photographs of the exhibition, the visitors, and the post-exhibition journey of the objects. As befits its open-endedness Daniels does not draw one final conclusion as to whether the exhibition was successful or not in transforming the stereotypes that visitors had of Japanese domesticity. i challenges perceptions of contemporary exhibitions by a reversal of power from the curator to the visitor, thus looking at what exhibitions could be - "technologies of the imagination.". [Extracted from the article]

The discursive turn in heritage studies has made major contributions to our understanding of heritage as a set of processual practices, demonstrating how they are inherently contingent while acknowledging their role in the legitimation of specific relationships of power. More recently, there has been a related interest in the rhetorical uses of heritage, and the paper builds on these debates to explore the ways in which the National Gallery (London) mobilised a rhetoric about access as part of its scheme of post-WWII reconstruction. The popular 'Exhibition of Cleaned Pictures' (1947) sheds light on the rhetorical devices employed by the Gallery. These were a cogent example of the Gallery's intended programme of emancipatory viewership, premised on visitors' the right to look, but simultaneously reinforced the Gallery's authoritative discourses. The paper shows how photography's reportedly unbiased language became embedded in the Gallery's democratising agenda and helped shape distinctive forms of publicness which fostered a consensual view about the Gallery's practice of cleaning. Rather than seeing both episodes as mutually exclusive, the paper investigates the internal logic of democratisation and professionalisation as a series of co-dependent rhetorical operations that simultaneously enabled freedom and coercion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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When People Dancing's 2013 '11 Million Reasons' (11MR) project was first advertised, the vision for the photography exhibition was to 'recreate iconic dance moments in film'. When the 2016 follow-on project '11 Million Reasons to Dance' (11MRTD) was conceptualised, the exhibition's premise was described as commissioning 'images of iconic dance moments from film, all reimagined by Deaf, sight impaired and disabled dancers'. This shift from 'recreated' to 'reimagined', as well as the decision to use a RE approach at all for an intervention, was intriguing. This article explores the meaning, purpose and use of the RE prefix, evaluating its use in dance contexts, its impact when used within disability contexts and its use for the 11MRTD project, as well as considering questions raised by the project regarding the recreation of popular dance scenes in relation to the viewing of non-normative bodies by public audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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While the White Cube has been criticised numerous times since the 70s, it is striking to see it has perpetuated in most of the contemporary photographic shows. Especially, as the critics historically emphasised its negative political stakes, we have to ask ourselves about its use in exhibitions that are thought to be politically committed. The author engages that question with the example of several exhibitions of the work of the French photographer Willy Ronis, known for his communist engagement. As these exhibitions, held by the Jeu de Paume, take on the White Cube, he recalls some of the main critics of the set-up, before showing that photography may not totally be concerned by these analyses. He shows that photography actually authorizes the coexistence of the White Cube and a certain photographic commitment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Richard Daintree is well known as an Australian colonial photographer and geologist. I look at six international exhibitions he created from 1872 to 1879 that promoted the colony of Queensland by systematically integrating spectacular grids of painted photographs with displays of scientific samples. By analysing installation views, I argue that the popular success of these exhibitions came from the use of various new photographic technologies within the space of the exhibition, where the frontier directly interacted with the metropole. Further, I argue that Daintree's personal passion for the science of geology profoundly structured the colonialist narrative of his exhibitions, which combined the latest apparatuses of scientific knowledge and imperial communication, revealing him to be an innovative and internationally significant creator of synthesised exhibitionary experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several exhibitions and books on the work of photographer Lee Miller including "Lee Miller: A Woman's War" at the Imperial War Museum in London, England October 15, 2015-April 24, 2016, "Lee Miller" at the Walter Moser Albertina Museum in Vienna, Austria, and "Lee Miller" edited by Water Moser and Klaus Albrecht Schroder.

Excavating the polemical 'Pictures of Sweden 1969', Kim West discusses the exhibition form as a critical means of communication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]