Associate Professor and a Concordia University Research Chair in Art History
Department of Art History (EV-3.815)
Concordia University, Montreal
Martha Langford is an associate professor and Concordia University Research Chair in Art History at Concordia University in Montreal. Major works include Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (2001) and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (2007), as well as an edited collection, Image & Imagination (2005), all from McGill-Queen’s University Press. A Cold War Tourist and His Camera, co-written with John Langford, is in press (MQUP, 2011).
Reccent essays include “A Short History of Photography in Canada, 1900–2000,” in A. Whitelaw, B. Foss, and S. Paikowsky, eds., The Visual Arts in Canada: The Twentieth Century (Oxford University Press, 2010); “The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation,” in L. Lerner, ed., Depicting Canada’s Children (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009); “Imagined Memories: On Rafael Goldchain’s Family Album,” in his I Am My Family: Photographic Memories and Fictions (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008); and “Strange Bedfellows: Appropriations of the Vernacular by Photographic Artists,” Photography & Culture 1:1 (July 2008).
Langford is a contributing editor for Border Crossings (Winnipeg), Exit (Madrid) and Photography & Culture (London), an advisory board member for Ciel variable (Montreal), and a regular book reviewer for Source (Belfast). She is editor-in-chief of The Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien and co-editor, with Sandra Paikowsky, of the MQUP/ Beaverbrook Foundation Series on Canadian Art History. An active independent curator, she was artistic director of the international biennale, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal 2005. With Sherry Farrell Racette, Langford was a consultant for Photoquai. Biennale des images du monde 2009 at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris and a co-curator of Unmasking: Arthur Renwick, Adrian Stimson, Jeff Thomas at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, 2009-10. She is currently writing an intellectual biography of Michael Snow.