From A to Z. Photographs in the Ruhr Museum.

In this paper, I try to demonstrate how a huge number of photographs and many heterogeneous photographic stocks can become a source for an exhibition concentrating on photographic features and archival orders – in other words for the photographic dispositif in the context of the photo-archive in the Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany. It will not be new knowledge to stress that words play a major role in structuring the subject matter for our exhibition. Words are found as key words, chapter titles, captions, data base categories and last but not least as curatorial categories, they are essential parts of photographs, at least of the photographic dispositif. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]