FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

卡梅伦与南肯辛顿博物馆

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

1865 · 小故事

1865 年,南肯辛顿博物馆(今 V&A)展出卡梅伦的照片,这是她的第一次博物馆展览。1868 年,博物馆又借给她两个房间做人像工作室。

据 V&A 介绍,在卡梅伦生前,南肯辛顿博物馆是唯一展出过她作品的博物馆。她的照片先进了博物馆,三年后她本人也在那里拍照。

不妨试试

想象同一张照片放在三个地方:家庭相册、工作室墙上、展厅里。旁边挂着什么,观众站得多远,都会改变观众看它的方式。你会怎样摆放自己的照片?

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

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故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

Cameron and the South Kensington Museum

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

1865 · Anecdotes

In 1865 the South Kensington Museum, now the V&A, showed Cameron's photographs: her first museum exhibition. In 1868 the museum gave her two rooms to use as a portrait studio.

According to the V&A, it was the only museum to exhibit her work in her lifetime. Her pictures entered the museum first; three years later she was photographing there herself.

Try this

Imagine one picture in three places: a family album, a studio wall, a gallery. What hangs beside it, and how close viewers stand, change how it is seen. How would you place your own pictures?

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

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