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A Cold War Tourist and His Camera

by (author) Martha Langford & John Langford

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2011
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538214
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $45.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773590779
    Publish Date
    Jan 2011
    List Price
    $45.95

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Description

Martha Langford and John Langford examine their father's apparently innocuous photographic experience, revealing the complexity of both the images and their creator. An intelligent and personal look at the ways that the historical and the private are represented and remembered, A Cold War Tourist and His Camera stages the family slide show as you've never seen it before.

About the authors

Martha Langford is research chair and director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University and author of Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums.

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John Langford is professor of public administration at the University of Victoria. He is the co-editor of Corruption, Character and Conduct (Oxford University Press, 1994).

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Editorial Reviews

"A book full of observations and pointed comments about Canada's role in NATO and in world politics of the time. Indeed, the text can serve as a brief introduction to Cold War politics." The Gazette