Revisions: research report
Ransom, Elizabeth and Fox, Anna (2024) Revisions: research report. Project Report. V&A/University for the Creative Arts. (Unpublished)
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The purpose of the Revision: Research Report is to investigate the representation of female photographers in the Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Collection through the attribution of gender and interviews with key museum figures. This research will support Fast Forward: Women in Photography in developing future grant applications, as well as inform future research endeavours at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Research was carried out over a period of three months, from April to June 2024. This report analyses how women’s photographic practice has been acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum since its inception. This involves investigating works acquired by public funding, gifts, and departmental budgets as well as two key sources of acquisitions funding currently being utilised in the photography department including acquisitions made by The Parasol Foundation Trust and the Photographic Acquisitions Group both of which I will discuss later in this report. Data collection was conducted of contemporary acquisitions in the eight years leading up to the viral social movement #Metoo in 2017 and the eight years after #Metoo to establish the impact of the global social movement on collecting habits. The research undertaken for this project was done so with an awareness of the way in which the social category of ‘women’ intersects with class, race, sexuality, gender identity, disability, and migration status.
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