On February 18, Jenni Rodda wrote >Photograph albums, in my experience, are
most valuable as objects of accumulation.
>We agree. The question we face is how best to provide access to albums in
>an exhibition setting when preservation considerations preclude handling.
>I am working now on an exhibition of family photographs, many of which are
>in significantly sequenced and annotated albums. In fact, most vernacular
>photographs derive the bulk of their meaning from the contexts in which
>they have been found and used. This is much more true of these images than
>of art photos or paintings. How do we bring them into our museums without
>reducing them to illustrations? How can we teach our public to
>differentiate between object and image when in many cases our curators and
>designers do not?

Alison Nordstr=F6m
Southeast Museum of Photography
Daytona Beach, Florida