Photogenic Montreal : activisms and archives in a post-industrial city /

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Imprint:	Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Subject:	Architecture and photography -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal. Art and photography -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal. Art and architecture -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal. Photography -- Social aspects -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal. Architecture and photography. Art and architecture. Art and photography. Photography -- Social aspects. Montréal (Québec) -- Pictorial works. Québec -- Montréal. Electronic books. Pictorial works.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13515543

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Other authors / contributors:	Langford, Martha, editor. Sloan, Johanne, editor.
ISBN:	0228009782 9780228009788
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern but one that is reshaped in the city. Whether 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. Photogenic Montreal takes a question initially posed by heritage debates--what does photography preserve?--and creates a rich conversation about the agency of the human actors before and behind the camera, and of the medium itself. The interplay of archives and activisms structures the book. 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--the neighbourhoods, industrial buildings, and thoroughfares from where they came. It is through the reactivation of archival photographs that submerged traces of urban experience are discovered, iconic images and exhibitions have radicalized photographic preservation, and alternate histories of Montreal can be recounted. Multiple forms of activism complement this archival work. Beginning in the 1960s, community-minded and heritage groups responded to the tensions arising from urban reconstruction, gentrification, and the erasure of neighbourhoods; this activism also left its photographic traces. Attentive to the still-changing face of the city's architecture, neighbourhoods, and street life, Photogenic Montreal participates in debates about who the city belongs to, who speaks on its behalf, and how to picture its past and present."--
Other form:	Print version: Photogenic Montreal. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228008573 9780228008576

Table of Contents:

Re-Activations: Alain Chagnon's Plateau-Mont-Royal in Translation / Martha Langford
Melvin Charney and Photography: "The Image Behind the Image" / Louis Martin
Through the Lens of Edith Mather: Photographing Demolition and the Transforming City / Tanya Southcott
Returning to the Ninth Floor: An Interview with Selwyn Jacob / Johanne Sloan
Is the Artist an Unreliable Archivist? Reflections on the Photographic Preservation of a Montreal Neighbourhood / Clara Gutsche
Post-industrialist Passions: Urban Exploration, Photography, and the Spirit of Place / Suzanne Paquet
Picturing The Old Architecture of Quebec: Ramsay Traquair and Cultural Conservatism, 1913-39 / Annmarie Adams
A Heuristic Archive: Jean-Paul Gill's Red Light Photographs / Philippe Guillaume
The Pastness of Allô Police / Will Straw
Architecture, Photography, and Power: Picturing Montreal, 1973-74 / Cynthia Imogen Hammond
Fading In and Fading Out: Negatives and Positives in the Photographic Afterlives of Ephemeral Site-Specific Installations by Martha Fleming & Lyne Lapointe / Martha Fleming
Erase and See: The Photogénie of a Metropolis in Progress / Martha Langford
Expo 67 and the Future of Montreal / Johanne Sloan.

Photogenic Montreal : activisms and archives in a post-industrial city /

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