{"product_id":"catherine-wagner-place-history-and-the-archive","title":"Catherine Wagner: Place, History, and the Archive","description":"Place History and the Archive  provides a forty-year survey of Catherine Wagner's  photographic work. This is the first volume to contain Wagner's major bodies of work,  dating from 1974 to 2016, in one compelling publication. Wagner's incisive photographs  move seamlessly and elegantly between different approaches and content following her  interest in the ways in which knowledge is transferred. This expansive new publication  surveys nineteen series and includes early projects in which Wagner began working with  strategies she calls \"archeology in reverse\". Early  California Landscape  (1974),  Moscone Site (1978), and  1275 Minnesota Street  (2016) employ a strategy of considered observation that  interrogates the built environment. Physical and cultural architecture along with its core  materials, are reimagined as metaphors for how we construct our cultural identities. Wagner  further extends the notion of construction as she examines institutions as various as art  museums, science labs, classrooms, the home, and Disneyland. Scientific, cultural, and  natural histories are key realms of this exploration. At several Human Genome Project sites,  Wagner explored scientific inquiry; while at the Stanford Linear Accelerator she worked  on a reimagining of Mary Shelley's  Frankenstein . Projects such as  Re-Classifying History (2005),  Rome Works  (2014), and  A Narrative History of the Light Bulb  (2006), recontextualize  archives and collections of various cultural and historical institutions; questioning the  representations of how history is recorded.  Reparations  (2010), and  Trans\/literate  (2013)  investigate the processes of cultural change and redefinition by looking at collections of  medical splints and Braille books, respectively.","brand":"Damiani Editore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664493056036,"sku":"9788862085984","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9788862085984.jpg?v=1777357856","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/catherine-wagner-place-history-and-the-archive","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}