
Suspended Conversations : The afterlife of memory in photographic Albums
by Langford, MarthaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): McGill Queens Univ Pr
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Summary
Albums are treasured by families, collected as lively illustrations of the past by museums of social history, and examined by scholars in sociology, folklore, art history, and cultural studies for what they can reveal about attitudes and sensibilities. Most agree that albums are stories that come to life in the retelling but when no one is left to tell the tale, the intrigue of the album becomes a frustrating puzzle, a suspended conversation. Langford argues that oral consciousness provides the missing key. By correlating photography and orality she shows how albums were designed to work as performances and how we can unlock their mysteries.Suspended Conversationsbrings 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.
Author Biography
Martha Langford was the founding director and chief curator of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Table of Contents
Preface: Hellohellohello | vii | ||||
Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
Introduction: Show and Tell | 3 | (19) | |||
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Conclusion: Remembering to Tell | 198 | (4) | |||
Appendix 1: A Note on the Photographic Collections at the McCord Museum of Canadian History | 202 | (4) | |||
Appendix 2: The Photographic Albums Illustrated in the Text | 206 | (9) | |||
Notes | 215 | (12) | |||
Bibliography | 227 | (10) | |||
Index | 237 |
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