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David Marvin’s Griffintown: An Archival Exploration of a Ghosted Neighbourhood
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David Marvin’s Griffintown: An Archival Exploration of a Ghosted Neighbourhood
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The author explores an archive of photographs by Montreal-based photographer David Wallace Marvin (1930-1975) and its potential for reimagining Griffintown, an historically Irish-Montreal working class neighbourhood and industrial district bordering the Lachine Canal and the western edge of the city's Old Port. The McCord Museum has acquired nearly 6,000 of David Marvin's Montreal photographs, shot during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing upon sociologist Avery Gordon’s “haunting-as-method,” the author examines how David Marvin’s Griffintown photographs bear traces of a community left out of the histories of Montreal currently in circulation, revealing the imaginative and geographical displacements brought about by more than two centuries of municipal neglect and isolation, eviction, and gentrification.
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Master's thesis
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Concordia University
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Montreal
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2015
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viii-127p.
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en
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Fleming, Arwen Jean. “David Marvin’s Griffintown: An Archival Exploration of a Ghosted Neighbourhood.” Master’s thesis, Concordia University, 2015. https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/980525/1/Fleming_MA_F2015.pdf.
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