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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Good morning,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is just a reminder to all of you involved with SISPA that the listserv discussion with Martha Langford and Alison Nordstrom on Photography and Personal Archives will start on Monday morning and last throughout next week. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am copying the bios of our guest experts below as well as the citations for the readings. Any of you who have not yet received the readings by Rodney Carter and Martha Langford via email please feel free to request these from myself or Heather Dean. Don't forget to sneak a peak at the Collective Visions Project website: a whole new twist on the stories which personal photographs evoke.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Looking forward to another lively discussion,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">À lundi,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Catherine</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(SISPA Chair)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Participant bios:</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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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Catherine Hobbs,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language) /<SPAN LANG="fr-ca"> Archiviste, Archives littéraires de langue anglaise</SPAN></FONT>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Documentary Heritage Collection Sector /</FONT> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Secteur de la collection du patrimoine documentaire</FONT> </SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="fr-ca"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada <BR>
Place de la Cité, Room / Piece 598, </FONT></SPAN>
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