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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langford, Martha, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musée McCord d'histoire canadienne.

Photograph albums--Social aspects.

Photograph albums.

Photographs in genealogy.

Photography in historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Exhibiting a collection of photographic travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas compiled between 1860 and 1960 and held by the McCord Museum of Canadian History, this second edition includes a revised and expanded preface along with new photographs of the Notman albums.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface: Hellohellohello

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments to the Second Edition

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

A Note on the Photography Collection of the McCord Museum

The Photographic Albums Illustrated in the Text

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228003281

0228003288

OCLC:

1245663660