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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807791403321

Autore

Langford Martha

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2021

ISBN

0-2280-0328-8

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Photograph albums - Social aspects

Photographs in genealogy

Photography in historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.