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Les Archives photographiques Notman au Musée McCord
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Les Archives photographiques Notman au Musée McCord
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The author examines the different approaches of two curators at Montreal's McCord Museum who have worked on the photographic archives of William Notman. The Scottish-born Notman (1826-1891) immigrated to Montreal in 1856 and opened his photographic studio that year. Notman was Canada's first internationally recognized photographer and renowned for his portraits, landscapes, cityscapes and composites photos. The first McCord Museum curator of the Notman's photographic archives was Stanley G. Triggs, who was hired in 1965. He retired twenty eight years later. According to the author, Triggs focused on how Notman's photographs captured the nineteenth century English-speaking Montreal economic and social elite. In 2006, Hélène Samson was hired by the museum and is responsible for its Photography collection. According to the author, Samson focuses on the historical and scientific values of the archives. The author believes that while the Notman archives are a support for the memory and identity of (English) Montreal, she considers them first and foremost as an inexhaustible source of historical and technical documentation.
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Conserveries Mémorielles : Revue Transdisciplinaire de Jeunes Chercheurs
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Vol. 19
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2016
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fr
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Charpentier, Noëlle. “Les Archives photographiques Notman au Musée McCord.” Conserveries Mémorielles : Revue Transdisciplinaire de Jeunes Chercheurs Vol. 19 (2016). http://journals.openedition.org/cm/2376.
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