Imaging the Arctic

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Imaging the Arctic / edited by J.C.H. King and Henrietta Lidchi.

King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.) (Added Author). Lidchi, Henrietta. (Added Author).

Summary:

Photographers have been bringing images of the Arctic to a fascinated public since the nineteenth century. Imaging the Arctic is the first general account of the photography of the indigenous peoples of the North American Arctic. Bringing together native and non-native photographers, archivists and anthropologists, this volume explores both the aesthetics and the content of Arctic photographs.

Record details

ISBN: 0295977248
ISBN: 9780295977249
ISBN: 0774806729
ISBN: 9780774806725
ISBN: 0704125377
ISBN: 9780704125377
ISBN: 0704125374
Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1998.

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 (pages 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.
Citation/References Note:: Book review by Judith Ostrowitz, in American Indian art magazine, 0192-9968, Vol. 24, no. 4 (autumn 1999), p. 92-93, 96-97, 101, 104.