Conference: Reimagining One’s Own

Ethnographic Photography in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Europe

The photo collection of the Volkskundemuseum Wien was established along the lines of a “comparative ethnology of Europe” in the late nineteenth century, focusing on the territories of the Habsburg Monarchy. Today, the assembled materials raise manifold questions about their origins and, as a consequence, about the visual ethnography of “one’s own”.

Day 3, 3. December 2021, 10.00 to 17.00
10.00 Panel III: Working with Photographic Records in Museums and Archives
Input I
Unboxing Photographs. Photo-Objects on Display
Stefanie Klamm, Freie Universität, Berlin
Input II
Outliving the Image. Beyond the Anonymous in Anthropological “Type” Photographs from the Emma & Felix v. Luschan Collection
Katarina Matiasek, Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna
Input III
On Similarities. Trying to Grasp a Shared History Beyond Narratives of Ethnic Difference in Lower Styria. The Exhibition ŠTAJER-MARK
Eva Tropper, Museumsakademie Joanneum, Graz
Discussion
Moderation: Herbert Justnik
12.00 Lunch Break
13.00 Workshop Session
In three parallel workshops, we will elaborate on the aspects and questions raised at the key notes and panels.
Workshop I
Moderation: Magdalena Puchberger
Workshop II
Moderation: Friedrich Tietjen
Workshop III
Moderation: Herbert Justnik
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Concluding Discussion
Moderation: Herbert Justnik and Julia Schulte-Werning, Conference Organizers