[Personal_archives] Reminder--Dialogue on Photography and Personal Archives

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Good morning,

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.  

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.

Looking forward to another lively discussion,
À lundi,
Catherine

(SISPA Chair)

Participant bios:

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.


Catherine Hobbs,
Archivist, Literary Archives (English-language) / Archiviste, Archives littéraires de langue anglaise
Documentary Heritage Collection Sector / Secteur de la collection du patrimoine documentaire 
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada 
Place de la Cité, Room / Piece 598, 
550, boul. de la Cité, Gatineau (QC), K1A 0N4
catherine.hobbs at lac-bac.gc.ca
Téléphone /Telephone 819-934-8331
Télécopieur / Facsimile 819-934-8333

Gouvernement du Canada / Government of Canada  www.collectionscanada.gc.ca



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