Fejős Zoltán (szerk.): Fotó és néprajzi muzeológia - Tabula könyvek 6. (Budapest, 2004)
FRAZON ZSÓFIA: Kép-alá-írások. Fényképek narratív nagyításban
ZSÓFIA FRAZON Pictures - Captions. Photos under narrative magnification The paper discusses the ethnographic photo exhibition Stories from the Village Nyalka: Narrative Magnification, examining the relationship between iconographic elements discernible in the photographs and the social context within which the research project was conducted. As the author of the paper is also the curator of the exhibition, she observes this relationship within the framework of both empirical research and the museum’s display of the material. The project first focuses on the concept of narrativity, though later the Foucauldian phenomenon of archive and the idea of collage as coined by James Clifford are also introduced. Key focal points include the relationship between image and text in an ethnographic exhibition; how (objective or subjective) perspectives that motivate the production of texts, photos, and museum exhibitions are revealed; the role of captions and the importance attached to the position of the speaker; how these perspectives may be brought together in creating an exhibition; and how curators may enlist language in order to provide visitors with a comprehensive view. Though the answers provided by this paper are rooted in the empirical analytical tradition, they also venture into the theoretical, the methodological, and the pragmatic.