{"id":40274,"date":"2022-02-23T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T02:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/?page_id=40274"},"modified":"2025-12-11T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:58:35","slug":"zoe-tousignant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/team\/zoe-tousignant\/","title":{"rendered":"Zo\u00eb Tousignant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Curator, Photography<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>I believe that the history of photography is not just a story of images, but also of people, spaces and objects. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zo\u00eb Tousignant is a photography historian specializing in photography produced in Quebec and Canada. Born and raised in Montreal, she has been actively involved in the city\u2019s art and photography communities for over two decades. She has previously held the positions of Associate Curator, Photography at the McCord Museum and Curator at Artexte. She also worked for several years as an independent curator. Her many curatorial projects have included close collaborations with photographers such as Serge Cl\u00e9ment, Carlos Ferrand, Marisa Portolese and Gabor Szilasi.<\/p>\n<p>Zo\u00eb Tousignant holds a PhD in Art History from Concordia University and an MA in Museum Studies from the University of Leeds, UK. Her doctoral research, which was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Biblioth\u00e8que et Archives nationales du Qu\u00e9bec, focussed on the use of photography in popular illustrated magazines published in Montreal and Toronto during the Interwar Period.<\/p>\n<p>Her research has focussed on examining print culture as a vital form of dissemination for photography; retracing the networks of people and institutions that constitute the field of visual culture; and elucidating the affective bonds created by photographs and photographic practice. She is a member of the FQRSC-funded research group <em>Formes actuelles de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience photographique: \u00e9pist\u00e9mologies, pratiques, histoires<\/em>, based at Concordia University, the Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al and Universit\u00e9 Laval.<\/p>\n<p>She believes that the Museum\u2019s photography collection offers a fantastic opportunity to engage with the medium in all its facets\u2014as art, propaganda, memorial device, social documentation, scientific data, and more. For her, the collection itself is proof of how the history of photography should be written.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/photography\/\">More about the Photography Collection<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"cta\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/collections.musee-mccord-stewart.ca\/en\/collections\/155926\/photography\/objects\">Explore the collection online<i class=\"arrow-right-thickicon-\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curator, Photography I believe that the history of photography is not just a story of images, but also of people, spaces and objects. ________ Zo\u00eb Tousignant is a photography historian specializing in photography produced in Quebec and Canada. 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