Since the early twentieth century, the advent of cheap photography and printing has expanded our visual culture. This has had a profound impact on constructions of home: in glossy magazines and brochures, and later, in the cinema, TV and the web, homes have been pictured as ideal spaces of domesticity for the consumer.
In this resource, we are exploring this phenomenon of making home cultures public. How have visual technologies played a role in the staging of home, and specifically what is the relationship here between how people ‘curate’ their private domestic space and how they share it publicly? We will be linking historical uses of media with more contemporary acts of sharing home on social media to engage the home and its representations. We will also look at the ways in which museums like MoDA are responding to this phenomenon.
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S2, Episode 1: Home Spaces
In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza, talks to historians Trevor Keeble (Portsmouth University) and Jane Hamlett (Royal Holloway, University of London) about the design of homes in Britain from the nineteenth century onward. They discuss the idea of the home as a private space, and consider how we are currently re-negotiating these spaces in the context of Covid19 through the uses of digital technologies.
S2, Episode 7: Staging Home
In this episode MoDA's curator, Ana Baeza, discusses with Elizabeth Stainforth (University of Leeds) how people have staged their homes for public view, from analogue photography to digital imaging on social media.