Art collecting and photography. A look at the archive of the MAM

Authors

  • Natalia Giglietti

Keywords:

Photography, art collecting, curatorship

Abstract

Vida argentina en fotos (1981), Arte fotográfico Argentino. Colección del Museo de Arte Moderno (1999) and Colección del MAMBA II (2004) are three exhibitions of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (mam) [Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires] which, from different artists and starting points, were part of the public projection of the archive, of the narration of a history of the photography in Argentina and of the constitution of one of the most important collections to the study and visibility of the photographic images in the local sphere.From these coordinates, this article aims to contribute to a possible view on the photographic collection of the mam, which means taking the curatorial practices directly related to the art collecting into account, especially to show in the public sphere the decisions and motivations that led to the constitution of an archive, the spreading of the pieces of work and the legitimacy to the interior of the artistic sphere.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Downloads

Published

2015-09-30

How to Cite

Giglietti, N. (2015). Art collecting and photography. A look at the archive of the MAM. Boletín De Arte, (15), 85–93. Retrieved from https://papelcosido.fba.unlp.edu.ar/ojs/index.php/boa/article/view/18

Issue

No. 15 (2015): Boletín de Arte 15

Section

Status of the issue

License

According to these terms, the material can be copied and redistributed by any means or in any format as long as a) the author and original source of the publication are quoted (magazine and URL of the work), access to the license is provided and whether changes have been made is mentioned; and b) the material is not used for commercial purposes.

The cession of non-exclusive rights means that after the publication (post print) in Boletín de Arte the authors can publish their work in any language, means and format; in such cases it must be mentioned that the material was originally published in this magazine.

Such cession also means the authorization of the authors for the work to be collected by SEDICI, the institutional archive of the National University of La Plata, and to be spread in the databases that the editorial team considers appropriate to increase the visibility of the publication and its authors.

Moreover, the magazine encourages the authors to deposit their productions in other institutional and thematic archives under the principle that offering the society the scientific and academic production without any restrictions contributes to a greater exchange of the global knowledge.