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In the past few decades, increasing attention has been devoted within various disciplines to aspects previously considered trivial, among which are images, material objects and spaces. While the visual, the material and the spatial are receiving ever more consideration and the myriad issues surrounding them are being tackled, their convergence in educational settings across time and space has thus far remained underexplored. A travelling photo exhibition,The Family of Man, will serve as a starting point in this paper for addressing some of the complexities inherent in this convergence and thus highlight an essential yet neglected feature of education: its reliance on, and creative use of, multiple “modes” of communication and representation when attempting to produce learning effects. As a particular educational constellation that went on to travel throughout the world and interact with the contexts in which it moved,The Family of Manwas anything but neutral in design. The paper will show just how carefully it was composed to promote meaning-, power-, and knowledge-making in accordance with its mission. This border-crossing installation thus constituted a spectacle of different interacting views, forms, surfaces, lighting effects, panoramas, movements, captions and other factors that aimed to create order among things and people. Nevertheless, the paper argues, “theatres of display” in education such as this do not imply determination and causality of effects, but rather provide “uncertain conditions” within a spectrum of “actors” and “actants”. The paper relates this to the manifold affordances of objects, images, places and so on, to disruptions of meaning in their convergence across time and space and to “emancipation” on the part of learners. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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'From the Picture Press: the SPH Photographs Collection' is an online exhibition based on the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) archive of photographs covering the pre-indepencence period, i.e., 1950-65. It offers a unique opportunity to take a journey back in time, to experience through these black and white images, before Singapore's rapid modernisation and transformation to become one of the Asia's most affluent and technologically sophisticated city-states. The main aim of this paper is to develop and evaluate an online exhibition system and to find out its usefulness to teachers and students. From the user point of view, they would like to have detailed information about the Singapore including its history to the present. It was noticed that online exhibitions' user interfaces depend on the authoring tools that the institutions used. It was also found that internet is a very convenient medium for the teacher and public to deliver heritage and cultural information. School children are definitely excited over the opportunity to visit the online exhibition at home alongwith their parents. The findings show that teachers liked the online exhibition systems which had lot of cultural heritage information and also felt that it is a way to go forward for knowledge transfer in the future for the children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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BETWEEN 1921 AND 1923, THE US GOVERNMENT constructed a US Naval Training Center compound of yellow stucco barracks and other military buildings, fashioned in what architectural historians probably would describe [...]

This article presents several announcements related to labor history. Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co. announces on the publishing of the book "Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from the Bottom Up," by Staughton Lynd. The new Masters of Art program in Labor History will be available at the School of History and Welsh History at the University of Wales. It also includes recent publications and a calendar of events on congresses and conventions and industrial photography exhibitions.

In 1933, the South Manchuria Railway Company sent one hundred art photographs to the world's fair in Chicago as part of a larger exhibition programme promoting Japanese developments in north‐east Asia. The photographs, taken by Japanese professional and amateur photographers, exemplified the latest trends in photographic expression, from pictorialist portraits of local inhabitants to evocative, textural treatments of industrial landscapes. This essay examines how the art photography exhibit aesthetically mediated Japanese Manchuria for an American audience and exercised Japanese corporate ‘soft power’ at the fair, a cultural means to offset anxieties of Japanese military expansion in Asia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the service of African American military personnel in the U.S. Civil War, noting photographs and letters depicting their service. Topics include the role of racism in erasing the memories of black soldiers who took part in the war, the roles of slaves and free men as soldiers, and the 1900 exhibition "Exhibit of American Negroes" as part of the Universelle de Paris exposition at the Palace of Social Economy and Congresses in Paris, France.

An essay is presented that discusses the 1929 traveling exhibition "Film und Foto" ("FiFo"), organized by the association Werkbund. It focuses on the exhibition of works by photomontage artist John Heartfield. Topics include the Werkbund's philosophy of photography and its exhibition, a Soviet (USSR) pavilion at the 1928 Pressa exhibition in Cologne, Germany, and political aspects of Heartfield's book cover designs.

An essay is presented which discusses the collaborative American photographers' project known as the photography exhibition project known as The Polaroid Project funded by the Polaroid Corporation from 1983 through 2014, which includes excerpts from the bulletin "Knute Rockne Oasis Newsletter and Journal of Critical Opinion." The American photographers Robert Frank and Dave Heath's involvement in the project is discussed.

The article discusses the traveling exhibition "The Family of Man," a photography show that toured throughout the world between 1955 and 1962. The author analyzes the exhibition from the perspective of the viewing context of South Africa, suggesting that doing so allows for a more expansive discussion of the politics of humanist photography. In addition, the author addresses the role played by the exhibition's curator, Edward Steichen, and examines photographer Allan Sekula's criticism of the show.

In 1909, a series of photographs by Honolulu portraitist Caroline Gurrey was exhibited at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in Seattle. The photographs, which combine elements of the Pictorialist style and ethnographic photography, are portraits of young men and women of either Native Hawaiian or mixed-race heritage. The archival record indicates that the photographs were purchased in Honolulu by a member of the Exposition's administration, and Gurrey's original intention for them is currently unknown. Nevertheless, the author argues that through their display at the AYPE – an exposition that stressed industry, expansion and commerce as its key themes – Gurrey's portraits served a significant role in the articulation and visualisation of the Exposition's central goals and the United States's desires for settlement of the newly-acquired Territory of Hawaii by bourgeois white agriculturalists. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Focuses on the development of American folk art. Profiles of several folk artists; Commentaries on various works of the artists; Presentation of photographs related to folk art.

Discusses the challenges in designing exhibits for critical history. Expansion of the public historical sphere; Opportunity for academic historians to reach a wider audience; Research strategy; Selection of objects and photographs for display; Interests of sponsors; External funding.

An essay is presented that discusses the role of scale in the history of photography. Topics include the relation of the size of photographs to scale, the creation of tableaus and photomurals, and political and cultural factors in the display of enlarged photographs in photomurals. The exhibition of commercial photography from advertising campaigns is noted.