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Mount Merapi and the TrencadÍs Bench

Negotiating Personal–Professional Identities through Working with Photographs as Treasured Objects

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According to Edwards (2009), photographs have intricately connected meanings as images and as objects. As objects, photographs can be pinned up on a surface, framed, or just stuck on a wall (Edwards, 2009).

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Muhammady, F.F.E., Rawlinson, W., Pillay, D. (2017). Mount Merapi and the TrencadÍs Bench. In: Pillay, D., Pithouse-Morgan, K., Naicker, I. (eds) Object Medleys. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-194-0_11

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