Photo Essay
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2024
Summary
From the first time I visited the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków in 2010, I was acutely aware of what did not appear in the permanent exhibition. The displays seemed to present a never-never land of Polish folkways, a Poland without history, politics, poverty, resistance, and also without ethnic and religious minorities, especially Jews––my own people. Where Jews did appear, it was in the caricatured terms of Polish folklore, whose antisemitic qualities seemed lost on the museum. Today it still seems to me that the museum holds to a narrow and tendentious conception of its mission. For this reason, I was glad to participate in the limited and brief intervention to which the museum agreed in 2017, and to make photographs that might prolong that intervention––as photographs do––toward the possibility of deeper change in coming years.
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- My Museum, a Museum about MeCuratorial Dreams for the Kraków Ethnographic Museum, pp. 116 - 122Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2023