Asymmetrical Authority & Historical Kaleidoscope:
Materiality translates the abstract and representational "photography" into "photographs" as objects that exist in time and space. The possibility of thinking about photographs in this way in part rests on the elemental fact that they are things: "They are made, used, kept, and stored for specific reasons which do not necessarily coincide... They can be transported, relocated, dispersed or damaged, torn and cropped and because viewing implies one or several physical interactions." (Nuno Porto)
Photographs Objects Histories Elizabeth Edwards and Janice Hart