Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums
Among the McCord Museum of Canadian Historys holdings in Montreal are hundreds of amateur photographic albums that Langford has found to be a treasure troveshe submits that the modest album is an important aesthetic and performative art form. Her argument that the connection between photography and the oral tradition is crucial for the survival of meaningful memory is sophisticated, theorized and lyricaland accessible: anyone who has been flooded with idiosyncratic memories while flipping through a photo album will understand exactly what she means.
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