Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums, Volume 10In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Contrary to those who isolate the individual photograph, treat albums as texts, or argue that photography has supplanted memory, she shows that the photographic album must be taken as a whole and interpreted as a visual and verbal performance that extends oral consciousness. Suspended Conversations brings to light a rich collection of photographic travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas compiled between 1860 and 1960 and held by the McCord Museum of Canadian History. Martha Langford not only provides a fascinating glimpse of a previous century's preoccupations and mores but brings photography into the great conversation about how we remember and how we send our stories into the future. |
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Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums Martha Langford Limited preview - 2001 |
Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums Martha Langford No preview available - 2001 |
Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums Martha Langford No preview available - 2008 |
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Album MP amateur Annie Craven Archives art of memory artist Barthes Beaubien Benson Berchem cabinet cards camera Canada Canadian captions cartes-de-visite Chalfen Charles-Philippe Charles-Philippe Beaubien child chronicle collection compiler compiler's containing costume culture David Ross David Ross McCord Etheldred example experience family album family Bible family photographs frame framework Frothingham gelatin silver prints girl graphs Gretta Chambers group portrait Henisch Hirsch idea of album individual inscribed John landscape leather-bound album lives look Lucybelle McCord Museum memoir Molson Montreal mother narrative nature nineteenth-century Notman object older sister Ong's oral tradition patterns performance photographic album picnic posing present record ritual seems snapshot album social St-Ours Ste-Adèle story structure studio symbolic telling Thomas Molson tion tographic travel album travelogue typological Victorian views visual Wagner Walker Evans William Notman woman women young younger sister