Description
Book SynopsisIllustrated throughout with archival photographs, 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.
Trade ReviewIn many ways, Geller’s
Northern Exposures is ground-breaking. It is the first book to describe and document, with many superb illustrations, some of the extensive camera work done in the Canadian North; it is also the first book ... to provide a critique of certain key institutions and individuals whose images have constructed and conditioned southern Canadians’ perceptions of the North. But I want to begin with one aspect of this book that deserves special praise – the illustrations ... readers owe Geller and UBC Press much thanks ... each image is nicely subtitled and perfectly placed ... Geller concludes this study with an excellent bibliography. Bravo! -- Sherrill Grace, University of British Columbia * Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no.1 *
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
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 “Re-Making It Into Here”: Representation and Power in Northern Imagery
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
