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Title The cultural work of photography in Canada / edited by Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 270 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits, digital file
Series McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history
McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
Contents Introduction / Carol Payne and Andrea Kunard -- Part 1 Visual Imaging. Felix Man's "Canada": Imagined Geographies and Pre-Texts of Looking / Joan M. Schwartz -- Economic Necessity, Political Incentive, and International Entrepreneurialism: The "Frontier" Photography of Hannah Maynard / Carol Williams -- Photography, Ethnology, and the Domestic Arts: Interpreting the Sir Daniel Wilson Album / Andrea Kunard -- John Vanderpant's Canada / Jill Delaney -- Returning Fire, Pointing the Canon: Aboriginal Photography as Resistance / Sherry Farrell Racette -- Part 2 Circulating Narratives. Colonizing Images: The Roles of Collected Photographs in Colonial Discourse / Robert Evans -- Shooting Immigrants: Ethnic Difference in Early Twentieth-Century Press Photography / Sarah Bassnett -- Picturing Communism: Yousuf Karsh, Canadair, and Cold War Advertising / James Opp -- The Economic Nationalism of Weekend Magazine / Sarah Stacy -- Photojournalism and Awards: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Press Pictures in Canadian Contests / Vincent Lavoie -- Part 3 Remembering and Forgetting. Unsettling Acts: Photography as Decolonizing Testimony om Centennial Memory / Lynne Bell -- On Photographing a Dirty Bomb / John O'Brian -- Atomic Photographs in a Fallout Shelter / Blake Fitzpatrick -- Emergence from the Shadow: First Peoples' Photographic Perspectives / Jeff Thomas -- Part 4 Writing Photography in Canada. Writing Photography in Canada: A Historiography / Andrea Kunard and Carol Payne
Summary An interdisciplinary inquiry into the history of the photograph in Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index
Subject Photography -- Social aspects -- Canada
Photography -- Canada -- History
National characteristics, Canadian.
Group identity -- Canada
Canadians.
Indigenous peoples in art.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
Indigenous peoples in art
Canadians
Group identity
National characteristics, Canadian
Photography
Photography -- Social aspects
Canada
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kunard, Andrea
Payne, Carol
LC no. 2012360977
ISBN 9780773585720
0773585729