Record details

• ISBN: 0295977248
• ISBN: 9780295977249
• ISBN: 0774806729 (UBC Press)
• ISBN: 9780774806725 (UBC Press)
• Physical Description: 256 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm.
• Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Chiefly essays first presented at a conference held at the Museum of Mankind, London, April 1996.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Two early photographs of an Inughuaq (Polar Eskimo) / William C. Sturtevant, Inge Kleivan -- Technology and vision : factors shaping nineteenth-century Arctic photography / Nicholas Whitman -- Early photographers of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland / Douglas Wamsley, William Barr -- The history of Canadian Arctic photography : issues of territorial and cultural sovereignty / Pamela Stern -- Peter Pitseolak and the photographic template / Dorothy Harley Eber -- Pictures of the Arctic night : Archibald Lang Fleming and the representation of Canadian Inuit / Peter Geller -- Contemporary Inuit photography in Nunavik : two decades of documentary, photojournalism and corporate photography at Makivik corporation / Zebedee Nungak, Stephen Hendrie -- Using photography to assert Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic : the A.P. Low expedition of 1903-4 aboard the CGS Neptune / Jim Burant -- In search of Geraldine Moodie : a project in progress / Donny White -- The photographic album of C.M. Catos the Eastern Arctic, c.1909-14 / J.C.H. King -- The Greenlandic photographer John Miller / Inge Kleivan -- The Roald Amundsen photographs of the Netsilik people, 1903-5 / Ann Christie Eek -- The Alaska photographs of Edward W. Nelson, 1877-81 / William W. Fitzhugh -- More than just Black and white : Marvin Peter's Barrow family album / Chris B. Wooley, Karen Brewster -- The gift / Bill Hess -- Charles Menadelook photographs : a family collection / Eileen Norbert -- The present as history : photographs and the Canadian Inuit, 1959-94 / Nelson H.H. Graburn -- With broom and camera : Gladys Knight Harris's photography of Inupiat women, 1949 / Molly Lee -- Persuasive images : photograph of Vilhjalmur Stefansson in the Stefansson collection on Polar Exploration at Dartmouth College / Kesler E. Woodward --Robert J Flaherty : the autobiography of an Arctic photographer, 1906-21 / Robert J. Christopher -- Reflecting on contested images / Alan Rudolph Marcus -- Filmic fantasies in arctic lands : photographing the Inuit of North West Greenland in 1932 / Henrietta Lidchi -- In Torngak's realm : the nineteenth-century photography of Moravian missionaries in Labrador / Stephen Loring -- The native photograph / Simeonie Keenainak -- In conclusion : the power of the image / Hugh Brody.

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Photography > Arctic regions.
Arctic peoples > Pictorial works.
Photographie en ethnologie > Arctique > Histoire > Congrès.
Inuit > Ouvrages illustrés.