Northern exposures : photographing and filming the Canadian north, 1920-45

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Northern exposures : photographing and filming the Canadian north, 1920-45 / Peter Geller.

Geller, Peter G. (Peter Geoffrey), 1963- (Author).

Summary:

"Northern Exposures looks at the photographic and film practice of the three major colonial institutions in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic in the first half of the twentieth century - the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson?s Bay Company ... through the work of federal government special investigator Major Lachlin T. Burwash, first Bishop of the Arctic Archibald Lang Fleming, The Beaver magazine editor and publicity expert Douglas MacKay, and photographer-filmmaker-author Richard Finnie"--Back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0774809272
ISBN: 9780774809276
ISBN: 0774809280
ISBN: 9780774809283
Physical Description: xviii, 258 pages, 1 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliography (pages 227-242), filmography (pages 243-246) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 1. Taking pictures and making history : photographic representation and the Canadian north -- 2. More than "a mass of ice and snow" : visualizing the state in "Canada's Arctic" -- 3. Pictures of the "Arctic night" : Archibald Lang Fleming and missionary messages of the north -- 4. The business of representing the north : filmmakers, photographers, and the fur traders of the Hudson's Bay Company -- 5. From Back to Baffin to Canada moves north : Richard Finnie's northern visions -- 6. "Remaking it into here" : representation and power in northern imagery.