Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums, Second Edition

by Martha Langford

In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Rather than isolate the individual photograph, treat albums as texts, or argue that photography has supplanted memory, she demonstrates that the photographic album must be taken as a whole and interpreted as a visual and verbal performance that extends oral consciousness.Exhibiting a collection of photographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228001382
• ISBN13: 9780228001386
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 8.7"