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Northern Exposures - Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Northern Exposures - Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Yet images
of the region are within easy reach, in magazine racks, on our
coffee tables, and on television, computer, and movie screens. In
Northern Exposures, Peter Geller uncovers the history behind these
popular conceptions of the Canadian North. This book examines the
photographic and film practice of the Canadian government, the
Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company, the three
major colonial institutions involved in the arctic and sub-arctic.
In the first half of the twentieth century, visual representations
of the region were widely circulated in official publications and
presented in film shows and lantern slide lectures. including
federal government special investigator Major Lachlan T. Burwash,
first Bishop of the Arctic Archibald Lang Fleming, Beaver magazine
editor and publicity expert Douglas McKay, and
photographer-filmmaker-author Richard Finnie, this book engages in
a contextual approach to reading images, analyzing the interrelated
aspects of production, circulation, and reception. Geller reveals
the varied ways in which taking and displaying pictures of northern
people and places contributed to the extension of control over the
northern reaches of the Canadian nation. culture and the
relationship between photographic ways of seeing and the expansion
of colonial power, while raising important questions about the role
of visual representation in understanding the past. It will be of
interest to those concerned with Canadian and cultural history,
Northern and Aboriginal studies, film and communication, art
history, anthropology, and visual culture.
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