List members may be interested in this new book, the first devoted to this
important subject.

Richly illustrated with 68 colour images, The Reflexive Photographer will
help museums and galleries analyze in-depth and fully understand both
contemporary and historic images of all kinds: from documentary to found
photographs, and from journals to performance, play, and online
photo-sharing. The book acts as a demonstration of the new tools and skills
needed to fully appreciate and communicate the content and context of
images.

Full details of the book’s content are available here:
www.museumsetc.com/products/reflexive

In 13 chapters and over 300 pages, an international team of curators,
academics and researchers present a rich variety of perspectives whilst
exploring the photography of a range of world-renowned photographers,
including Robert Frank, Daido Moriyama, Richard Mosse, Eadweard Muybridge,
Ed Ruscha and Garry Winogrand.

The Reflexive Photographer will be of great value to curators artistic and
historical collections of images; and to archivists, librarians and others
with a responsibility for, or interest in, photographic collections, both
historic and contemporary.

The book is currently available with a complimentary copy of Uneventful:
The Rise of Photography, by Jeff Gates, Lead Producer, New Media
Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Graeme Farnell
Publisher, MuseumsEtc

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MuseumsEtc Ltd
UK: Hudson House | 8 Albany Street | Edinburgh EH1 3QB
USA: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Ste 11 | Cambridge | MA 02139
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