Suspended conversations : the afterlife of memory in photographic albums / Martha Langford.

Main entry:

Langford, Martha.

Title & Author:

Suspended conversations : the afterlife of memory in photographic albums / Martha Langford.

Publication:

Description:

x, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 24 cm

Notes:
Based on a collection of albums, compiled 1860-1960, held by the McCord Museum of Canadian History.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.
Preface: Hellohellohello -- Introduction: show and tell -- The idea of album -- The album as collection -- Memoirs and travelogues -- The idea of family -- Orality and photography -- "Photographs" 1916 -- 1945 -- Conclusion: Remembering to tell -- App. 1. A Note on the photographic collections at the McCord Museum of Canadian History -- App. 2. The Photographic albums illustrated in the text.

Summary:

"In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford breathes life into photographic albums. These travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas embody the intimate preoccupations of their compilers and the great events of a golden photographic age, 1860 to 1960. Langford also traces the influence of photograph albums on the installations, photo narratives, and photo sequences of contemporary artists. Whether dealing with art, museum archives, or the family heirloom, Suspended Conversations bring photography into the great conversation about how we remember our stories and send them into the future."--Jacket

ISBN:

0773521747
9780773521742
9780773533929
0773533923

Subject:

Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne.
Musée McCord d'Histoire Canadienne
Montréal Musée MacCord d'Histoire Canadienne.
Photograph albums Social aspects.
Oral tradition.
Photographs in genealogy.
Photography in historiography.
Photographies Albums Aspect social.
Tradition orale.
Photographies en généalogie.
Photographie en historiographie.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Alltag
Bildband
Fotoalbum
Photography.
Scrapbooks.
Fotoalbum sociala aspekter historia.
Fotografi sociala aspekter historia.
Muntlig tradition.
Kanada
Photography, Canadian - 19th/20th centuries - 1860s-1940s.
Canada - Social history - 19th/20th centuries - 1860s-1940s.
Photography, Amateur.

Added entries:

Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 233291
Call No.: TR650 .L28 2001
Status: Available

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