Suspended Conversations

Martha Langford is the author of Scissors, Paper, Stone and the editor of Image & Imagination.

出版者:McGill-Queen's University Press

作者:Martha Langford

页数:368

出版时间:2001-08

价格:USD 42.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780773521742

图书标签:摄影原版

Albums are treasured by families, collected as illustrations of the past by museums of social history, and examined by scholars for what they can reveal about attitudes and sensibilities. Most agree that albums are stories that come to life in the retelling - but when no one is left to tell the tale, the intrigue of the album becomes a puzzle, a suspended conversation. Langford argues that oral consciousness provides the missing key. By correlating photography and orality she shows how albums were designed to work as performances and how we can unlock their mysteries.