[Personal_archives] More information on our discussion guests and readings

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Good afternoon Everyone,

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.  

Each has provided her bio by way of background:

Martha Langford is the author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001), Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Photographic Art (2007), and the editor of Image & Imagination (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.

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 Journal of Photography and Culture. Recent publications include " Slippery Histories: Notions of the Land and its Photographs" in Maartje van, den Heuvel, editor, Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art, Amsterdam: NAi Utgevers, 2008 and "Crafting the Art of the Photograph" in TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Douglas & McIntyre, 2008 and (Forthcoming) "After New" in Alison Nordström and Britt Salvesen, editors, Reconsidering New Topograhics, 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.

Three readings and a listserv have been suggested to prepare for the discussion:

Deborah Chambers  "Family as Place:Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of Public and Private Space
In Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographic Imagination, Joan M. Schwartz and James R. Ryan eds IB Tauris, 2003
Martha Langford "Strange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists" in the July 2008 issue of Photography and Culture. 
Rodney G.S. Carter "Photography and Personal Mythology" Queen's Quarterly Winter 2007 vol. 114 no. 4, p. 559-569.
The Collected Visions Project by Lorie Novak: http://cvisions.nyu.edu.

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.
Happy reading and I look forward to hearing your musings on the topic at the end of the month,
Catherine 
(SISPA Chair)

 <<Langford05 pp 073-094 (05).pdf>>  <<Carter r - photography -QQproof.pdf>> 


Catherine Hobbs,
Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language)
Library and Archives Canada
WS 598, 550 Blvd de la Cité
Gatineau, QC,  K1A 0N4 

Tel: (819) 934-8331 Fax: (819) 934-8333 
e-mail: catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca 


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