Career
After working for nine years with the National Film Board of Canada,Still Photography Division,where she was Executive Producer from 1981 to 1985,she was the founding director of the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. [8] From 1985 to 1994,she served as its director and chief curator. [6] In 1989,Langford was awarded the Government of Canada Merit Award. [9] She then went on to complete her doctorate and sat on the board of Le Mois de la Photo àMontréal. [10] Before she was hired by Concordia University as a professor of art history in 2004, [6] Langford had taught at the University of Ottawa,McGill University,and Bishop's University. [10]
In 2007,Langford published Scissors,Paper,Stone:Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art with McGill-Queen's University Press. The book is a study of the role of memory in contemporary photographic art. [6] Two years later,Langford worked as a curatorial consultant for the Musée du Quai Branly photographic biennale PhotoQuai 2009 and was the commissioning curator for Preoccupations:Photographic Explorations of the Grey Nuns Mother House for Concordia University. [9]
In 2011,Langford was appointed research chair and director of Concordia University's Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art,succeeding François-Marc Gagnon. Before obtaining this position,Langford served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Canadian Art History and an advisory board member for Ciel variable magazine. [11]
In 2017,Langford published an edited collection,Narratives Unfolding:National Art Histories in an Unfinished World,which discussed contemporary art historical approaches and their relationship to the notion of national art. [12]
In June 2018,Langford was selected as a research fellow at the Canadian Photography Institute. [13] A few months later,in September,she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [14]
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