Taking pictures in museums
🏛️ (3 pictures by Thomas Struth, 17 pictures by me)🏺
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If I didn’t show these photos to you, they’d get lost in the computer. Seems like a waste to take pictures I only look at myself. I want to show you some pictures I took in an archaeological museum on a Greek Island.
I have a strong fascination with museums and how things are displayed. I’ve previously shown you a bunch of rocks from the Museum of Natural History in New York.
But first, I want to show you some pictures I love by one of my favorite photographers, Thomas Struth.
He’s made many vastly different bodies of work over the years, but I always remember him for his photos of people in museums. There is a particular kind of theater to them. As museum-goers, we are on stage and the work is too. Down to how we perform walking through the galleries, appreciating the work, using quiet voices.
The photos I took in the archeological museum are nothing like these! I just love this series so much that I had to share.
The photos I took in the Greek archaeological museum are actually very different in that they lack very many people at all. In fact, I imagine this museum gets visited rather infrequently by tourists compared to the ones Struth visited.
I love a museum on a budget.
You can really see all of the ways that budget is put to use preserving items from antiquity in simple ways. No grand posters or huge placards, just a small institution doing what they can with all of these relics the island has been left with from thousands of years ago.
And that’s really that.
Similar thinkings on how art is displayed, etc:
Projections & Garry Winogrand @ the Brooklyn Museum
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Thank you for coming as always. I really appreciate it!
Cait
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I love that the bin is the only thing chained up in that line up so much.
I’ve always felt that whenever traveling. A museum or gallery is the perfect anchor point. They ground in a way cause of how they are set up (physically) and how you interact (walk around and view in quiet) if I’m ever overwhelmed while traveling. I just go to a museum or gallery.