Martha Langford. Suspended Conversa...

Martha Langford. Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP 2001 251 pp ISBN 0-7735-2174-7 $3995

There is a spurious brains of the "real" attached to the everyday photographic print, with its mimetic representation of things familiar. And ironically for a like reason since popular snapshot photography--or "Kodak culture" as Richard Chalfen has bourned it (2)--emerged in chronological tandem with the Modernist move in the traditional arts. At the same time, it might be speculated that although to the