Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead â and if so, are we living in a necropolis? This book on photography, cemeteries, and the archive evolved out of an experimental research project at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, with its immense collection of canonic photographs from the history of art and architecture. An artistâs book, it takes on the form of a description of an unfinished film in five acts â a cinematic fragment, so to speak: DOPOSTORIA. The title essay by Christoph Keller is complemented by two contributions on...
Who owns the past? Are museum archives and their re-collections of cultural heritage a cult of the dead â and if so, are we living in a necropolis? T...