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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">As you know, our listserv discussion in the week of Oct. 27-31 on the topic of Photography and Personal Archives will involve two renowned expert guests Martha Langford and Alison Nordstrom. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Each has provided her bio by way of background:</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Martha Langford is the author of<I> Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums</I> (2001),<I> Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Photographic Art</I> (2007), and the editor of<I> Image & Imagination</I> (2005), all published by McGill-Queen's University Press. She is an Associate Professor of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal and was the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Alison Nordström is the Curator of Photographs, George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY, the USA Director of the Ryerson University Graduate program in Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, and the International Editor of the the</FONT><I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Journal of Photography and Culture.</FONT></I> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman">Recent publications include “ Slippery Histories: Notions of the Land and its Photographs” in Maartje van, den Heuvel, editor,<U> Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art</U>, Amsterdam: NAi Utgevers, 2008 and “Crafting the Art of the Photograph” in<U> TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945</U>, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008 and (Forthcoming) “After New” in Alison Nordström and Britt Salvesen, editors,<U> Reconsidering New Topograhics</U>, Gottingen: Steidl Verlag, 2009 . She is particularly interested in the non-art uses and meanings of photographs and has written extensively on the photograph in anthropology, advertising, history and the family. She holds the PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Three readings and a listserv have been suggested to prepare for the discussion:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Deborah Chambers "Family as Place:Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of Public and Private Space<BR>
In</FONT><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographic Imagination</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">, Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan eds IB Tauris, 2003</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Martha Langford "Strange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists" in the July 2008 issue of</FONT><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Photography and Culture</FONT></I><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Rodney G.S. Carter "Photography and Personal Mythology"</FONT><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Queen's Quarterly</FONT></I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Winter 2007 vol. 114 no. 4, p. 559-569.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The Collected Visions Project by Lorie Novak: </FONT><A HREF="http://cvisions.nyu.edu"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">http://cvisions.nyu.edu</FONT></U></A><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">.<BR>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">You'll find Martha and Rodney's articles attached. For the Chambers article, please see what you can do to get your hands on a copy via colleagues or your local library. The article would need written permission from the publisher to be circulated in any other form.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Happy reading and I look forward to hearing your musings on the topic at the end of the month,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Catherine </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(SISPA Chair)</FONT>
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<P><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<Langford05 pp 073-094 (05).pdf>> </FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=2 COLOR="#000000"> <<Carter r - photography -QQproof.pdf>> </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Catherine Hobbs,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Library and Archives Canada</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">WS 598, 550 Blvd de la Cité</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Gatineau, QC, K1A 0N4 </FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Tel: (819) 934-8331 Fax: (819) 934-8333 </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">e-mail: catherine.hobbs@lac-bac.gc.ca</FONT>
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