In Suspended Conversations Martha Langford shows how photographic albums tell intimate and revealing stories about individuals and families. Rather than isolate the individual photograph, treat ...albums as texts, or argue that photography has supplanted memory, she demonstrates that the photographic album must be taken as a whole and interpreted as a visual and verbal performance that extends oral consciousness. Exhibiting a collection of photographic travelogues, memoirs, thematic collections, and family sagas compiled between 1860 and 1960 and held by the McCord Museum of Canadian History, this second edition includes a revised and expanded preface along with new photographs of the Notman albums. Printed in colour throughout, the enhanced material draws out the distinct nuances and details of each album, giving them new life to tell their stories. Albums are treasured by families, collected as illustrations of the past by museums of social history, and examined by scholars for what they can reveal about attitudes and sensibilities, but when no one is left to tell the tale, the intrigue of the album becomes a puzzle, a suspended conversation. Langford argues that oral consciousness provides the missing key. Correlating photography and orality, she explains how albums were designed to work as performances and how we can unlock their mysteries. A fascinating glimpse of the preoccupations of previous centuries, Suspended Conversation brings photography into the great conversation of how we remember and how we send our stories into the future.
By exploring the visitors' book as an artefact of diverse uses and discursive practices, this article demonstrates how it served as a site for communication amongst distinctive sub-sets of ...travellers; at the same time, its intrinsic flexibility was exemplified by ways it figured in public dialogues. Using the book of the Griffin Inn in Amersham, Buckinghamshire as a case study, the article explores the variety of users and uses associated with one volume and traces the book's emplacement within both exclusive, deeply encoded exchanges between particular inscribers and readers, and much wider audiences beyond the hostelry's walls.
Identity, Intertextuality, and Performance in Early Modern Song Culture for the first time explores comparatively the dynamic process of group formation through the production and appropriation of ...songs in various European countries and regions.
Recent insights on language and vision with neural networks have been successfully applied to simple single-image visual question answering. However, to tackle real-life question answering problems ...on multimedia collections such as personal photo albums, we have to look at whole collections with sequences of photos. This paper proposes a new multimodal MemexQA task: given a sequence of photos from a user, the goal is to automatically answer questions that help users recover their memory about an event captured in these photos. In addition to a text answer, a few grounding photos are also given to justify the answer. The grounding photos are necessary as they help users quickly verifying the answer. Towards solving the task, we 1) present the MemexQA dataset, the first publicly available multimodal question answering dataset consisting of real personal photo albums; 2) propose an end-to-end trainable network that makes use of a hierarchical process to dynamically determine what media and what time to focus on in the sequential data to answer the question. Experimental results on the MemexQA dataset demonstrate that our model outperforms strong baselines and yields the most relevant grounding photos on this challenging task.
•This paper aims to reveal the optimization of image resource construction through the research on “small direction” image storage, acquisition, browsing and sharing.•This research mainly focuses on ...two aspects: the analysis and acquisition of data, the service carrier of network album - photo and image resource structure.•In the process of image browsing, the image spatial resolution has been greatly improved under the construction of wireless network environment.
With the rapid development of information technology and the further popularization of the Internet, various industries in the whole society rely more and more on information. The network album system is one of the products in the information age.
This paper analyzes and studies the role of album service in image resource construction based on wireless network environment, and aims to reveal the optimization of image resource construction in this process through the research on image storage, acquisition, browsing and sharing of “small direction” network album.
This research mainly focuses on two aspects: the analysis and acquisition of data, the service carrier of network album - photo and image resource structure. Firstly, define the construction standard of the network album system, and analyze the specific performance requirements and non functional requirements of the network album system. In terms of system architecture, multi server architecture is adopted to realize basic load balancing and improve system performance. The comparison before and after system application is carried out in combination with image spatial resolution, image spectrum and image characteristics, so as to highlight the role of album service in wireless network environment.
The experimental results show that the highest value of the detection spectrum can reach 0.912. In the process of image browsing, the image spatial resolution has been greatly improved under the construction of wireless network environment. Among the 20 images in the experiment, the highest is 7.89.
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