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CA ACU SPC F0018-S0002-SS0006-SSS0029-FL0007
Title
Conversations Without Words [essay] - drafts. 1987
Date(s)
- 1987 September (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 file of textual material: 5 Items (73 p.)
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(1938-)
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Scope and content
- File consists of rough draft, fair draft fragment subtitled Silent Conversations and three clean copy drafts. Item 5 is French translation of essay, titled Conversations Sans Paroles. Includes photocopy of item 4. Original file folder contained John Metcalf's handwritten annotation "Sam Tata Essay. September 87."
- Handwritten; computer printout; computer printout (photocopy).
- Includes references to the following: Conversations Without Words; Conversations Without Words : Silent Conversations; Conversations Sans Paroles.
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Language of material
French
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Publication note
Tata : Portraits of Canadian Writers (Porcupine's Quill, 1991).
Notes area
Note
Conversations Without Words commissioned for publication in exhibition catalogue The Tata era = L'Epoque Tata by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1988. Exhibition catalogue accompanied retrospective exhibition of Sam Tata's work, organized and circulated by Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Note
Date based on information on original file folder.
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boxFile
37.12
barcode
00010417517
Accession number/Call no.
MsC 24
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- National Gallery of Canada (Subject)
- Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Correspondence relating to essay commission in Correspondence series, National Gallery of Canada file.