
Prof. Martha Langford
Professor
Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada
Participates in 2 items
Martha Langford is Professor of Art History, Concordia University, and Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. She is the author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001), Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (2007), editor of Image & Imagination (2005), and co-author with John Langford of A Cold War Tourist and his Camera (2011), all from McGill-Queen’s University Press. A special interest in the art and cinema of Michael Snow has produced a number of catalogue essays, book chapters, and the online art book Michael Snow: Life and Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014).
Sessions in which Prof. Martha Langford participates
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- What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
- 9:00 - 17:00 | 8 hours
- Photography was recognized as an instrument of heritage preservation from the moment of its inception in the early nineteenth century, when proj...
- Regular session
- 09.00 Re-activation: Auteurs and Agency in a Photographic Exhibition
- Participant Prof. Martha Langford (Concordia University, Departement of Art History, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Canada) |
- 9:00 - 9:30 | 30 minutes Part of: What does Photography Preserve? Reification and Ruin in the Photographic Heritage of a Place Called Montreal
- In the late 1960s, the North American field of photographic studies began to develop across a range of practices and institutions. By the early ...
- Paper