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Martha Langford, About Speaking of Photography – Jacques Doyon

Ciel variable 97 - PORTRAIT GALLERY | Interviews
Authors: Jacques Doyon, Martha Langford | Artists: Clifford Owens

September 5, 2018 [originally published in CV97 in Spring 2014] — Martha Langford is the research chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and a professor of art history at Concordia University in Montreal. Her books on photography include Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001); Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (2007)…

Michael Snow, Repeat Offender – Martha Langford, From Repeat Offender to La revue

Ciel variable 83 - MEDIUM : MAGAZINES | Portfolios
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Michael Snow

[Fall 2009] Repeat Offender (1986), by Michael Snow, is a reprint, inverted and in black and white, of a Penthouse portfolio. First published in the now-defunct Toronto photography magazine Photo Communique, this project was produced upon invitation of Elke Town for an issue with the themes of mass mediation and appropriation. In the context of […]

In Defense of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 82 – PUBLIC ART | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford

[Summer 2009] The National Gallery of Canada (NGC), under the direction of Marc Mayer, has recently announced that the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (CMCP) will no longer occupy its building at 1 Rideau Canal. In fact, the building will no longer be a public space for the arts. It has been handed over to […]

Martha Langford, Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art – Niki Lambros

Ciel variable 78 - COLLECTING PHOTOGRAPHY | Book Reviews
Authors: Martha Langford, Niki Lambros

[Fall 2008] by Niki Lambros The experience of reading the latest book by Martha Langford is strangely medieval; it’s a Cappelanasian compendium, an Ars Memoriae Contemporaria Photographia. Beckett is found on a single page with philosopher Avishai Margalit and St. Augustine; Benjamin, Penelope, and Proust in the same sentence. Drawing from literature, art history and […]

Rafael Goldchain, Familial Ground – Martha Langford, The varieties of Goldchain experience

Ciel variable 75 - MUTATIONS | Portfolios
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Rafael Goldchain

[Fall 2007] Familial Ground is the product of a process that started several years ago when Rafael Goldchain’s son was born. Goldchain gradually realized that his new role as parent included the responsibility to pass on a familial and cultural inheritance. Familial Ground is an autobiographical installation work that includes digitally altered self-portrait photographs, reproductions […]

Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 51 – ELSEWERE… NOWHERE | Book Reviews
Authors: Diana Thorneycroft, Martha Langford

[Summer 2000] Meeka Walsh, editor, with contributions by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Enright, and Vicki Goldberg Winnipeg: Bain & Cox Diana Thorneycroft: The Body, Its Lesson and Camouflage is the first major book by the Winnipeg artist whose psychic explorations have been seen and much discussed in Canada for over a decade. All of Thorneycroft’s […]

Interim Report – Martha Langford

Ciel variable 48 – QUEBEC PHOTO, THE 90S | Essays
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: Ariane Thézé, Donigan Cumming, Raymonde April, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Serge Clément, Sylvie Readman

[Fall 1999] by Martha Langford Last time (the first time), millennial anxiety was deferred by a strategic announcement from the church fathers: the population’s fears of the apocalypse were premature, for the year to worry about was not 1000, but 1033. Logical enough, and pretty clever, for by then one could expect the people to […]

George Steeves – Martha Langford, George Steeves, Compilation

Ciel variable 29 - UNTITLED | Portfolios
Authors: Martha Langford | Artists: George Steeves

[Winter 1994-1995] by Martha Langford She answered his request with the usual string of excuses. It was too late. He had asked her too late. Why had he not asked her earlier? She was too tired. She wanted to recite the rosary to the radio at seven. It was her way of teasing the child. […]