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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 influence of photograph albums on the installations, photo narratives, and photo sequences of contemporary artists. Whether dealing with art, museum archives, or the family heirloom, Suspended Conversations bring photography into the great conversation about how we remember our stories and send them…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2020McGill-Queen's University Press · 256 pages · 9780228001386
- Other · English · 2008McGill-Queen's University Press · 368 pages · 9780773533929
- Other · English · 2001McGill-Queen's University Press · 241 pages · 9780773521742
- Other · English · 2001McGill-Queen's University Press · 256 pages · 9780773569133
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