 | Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums Subjects: Photograph albums -- Social aspects; Oral tradition; Photographs in genealogy; Photography in historiography; McCord Museum of Canadian History; In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Unlike 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. Langford Martha : Martha Langford is research chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University and author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums. Martha Langford is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and the editor of Image & Imagination. |
