Suspended conversations : the afterlife of memory in photographic albums /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Langford, Martha (Author)
Corporate Author: Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne.
Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne
Montréal > Musée MacCord d'Histoire Canadienne.
Geschichte 1860-1960.
Photograph albums > Social aspects.
Oral tradition.
Photographs in genealogy.
Photography in historiography.
Photographies > Albums > Aspect social.
Tradition orale.
Photographies en généalogie.
Photographie en historiographie.
HISTORY > Historiography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions > General.
Oral tradition
Photographs in genealogy
Photography in historiography
Fotoalbum
Alltag
Bildband
Kanada
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Show and Tell
  • The Idea of Album
  • The Album as Collection
  • Memoirs and Travelogues
  • The Idea of Family
  • Orality and Photography
  • Photographs,1916-945
  • 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.

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