Suspended Conversations

The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums

Martha Langford (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2008
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3392-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An innovative way of looking at photographic albums as an extension of oral tradition

Autor

Martha Langford is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and the editor of Image & Imagination.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments



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



Appendix 1: A Note on the Photographic Collections at the McCord Museum of Canadian History



Appendix 2: The Photographic Albums Illustrated in the Text



Notes

Bibliography

Index

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 80 b&w photos
• Verlagsort: Montreal
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 229 x 206 mm
• Gewicht: 814 g
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-7735-3392-3 / 0773533923
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7735-3392-9 / 9780773533929
• Zustand: Neuware