BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION | What makes a city photogenic?

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: Afternoons at the Institute, Wednesday, 16 February, 4:00 – 6:00 pm

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BOOK LAUNCH AND CONVERSATION: What makes a city photogenic?
Co-editors of Photogenic Montreal:Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City, Martha Langford and Johanne Sloan,
in conversation with Dinu Bumbaru and Zoë Tousignant.

Please join the co-editors of Photogenic Montreal:Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City and their esteemed guests for a book launch and conversation on what makes a city photogenic.

Participants:
Dinu Bumbaru. Policy Director, Heritage Montreal
Zoe Tousignant, Independent curator
Martha Langford, Director, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University
Johanne Sloan, Professor of Art History, Concordia University

Moderator:
Stéphanie Hornstein, Doctoral Candidate, Concordia University

ABOUT THE BOOK

How photography imagines Montreal’s post-industrial identity.

The agency of photographs is a recurrent concern within the context of the city. 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. 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.