Visual duplication: Specimens, works of art and photographs at the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro (1928–1935) (2022)
Anaïs Mauuarin (Author)
British Journal for the History of Science
Volume: 55
Issue: 3
Pages: 365-388
Publication date: 2022
Language: English
The article considers how the use of duplicates and the practice of photography interacted in museums of ethnography, contributing to the ambivalent framing of ethnographic objects as items that can be both scientific specimens and works of art. It focuses on the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro in Paris and on the key period of its reorganization between 1928 and 1935, which was central to the institutionalization of French ethnology. By examining the place of duplicates in this museum, as well as the major role attributed to photographs of objects and their materiality, the paper shows that these others of the ethnographic artefacts, often considered separately from their originals, still participated in the same project: the development of the museum and its growing cultural influence. While the duplicates positioned the museum in the various networks of the scientific community, the photographs appealed to the avant-garde, amateurs, African and Oceanian art dealers and the general public.
...MoreArticle Ina Heumann; Anne Greenwood MacKinney; Rainer Buschmann (2022) Introduction: the issue of duplicates. British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 257-278).
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