Photogenic Montreal, 36: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City Langford Martha
Photogenic Montreal, 36: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City Langford Martha The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. Photogenic Montreal takes a…
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Photogenic Montreal, 36: Activisms and Archives in a Post-Industrial City Langford Martha
The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. Photogenic Montreal takes a question initially posed by heritage debates - what does photography preserve? Whether found in architectural records, social documentary, photojournalism, or artistic practice, photographic objects are embedded in urban contestation, aesthetically charged by artists, reinserted into social histories, and mobilized to imagine a future city.
The interplay of archives and activisms structures the book. - and creates a rich conversation about the agency of the human actors before and behind the camera, and of the medium itself. Photographs that appear to be sealed off in newspapers, storage rooms, or archives accrue new meaning when they cross the threshold back into social spaces and circulate anew.
It is through the reactivation of archival photographs that submerged traces of
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