englisch. 4to. (quartformat). 6. ausgabe der zeitschrift mas (materialien zu ausstellungsdesign und szenographie) der hfg karlsruhe, 2019/2020. supervision: andreas müller, james langdon. students: severin geißler, cécile kobel. cover: na kim.14 geheftete blatt, gefaltet. 'in 2014 the weltkulturen museum in frankfurt presented an exhibition titled ‘foreign exchange (or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)’. curated by clémentine deliss and yvette mutumba — at that time director and curator of the museum, respectively — the exhibition included a survey of the museum’s photographic documentation of its collection of around 67.000 ethnographic artefacts. these images were made by studio photographers commissioned by the museum and by in-house photographers. a publication accompanying the exhibition presents the transcript of a group discussion between invited artists, writers, anthropologists, and other commentators, organised in the context of the exhibition. here these historical photographs are heavily criticised. considered particularly problematic is their tendency — consistent over several decades — to depict ethnographic artefacts in isolation against plain, bright, ‘ethnic’ coloured backgrounds. this specific aesthetic is interpreted in the discussion as a kind of compensation for an extraordinary absence of knowledge about the provenance of the depicted artefacts, many of which were acquired in an intense period of activity during the colonial era by the museum’s founding director, bernard hagen.'(hfg k.). geringe gebrauchsspuren. gut bis sehr gut erhalten.