The cultural work of photography in Canada
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Copy number Shelfmark Shelf mark R021416 Ned. Fotomuseum CDN ANTH PAYNE.C 2011
TitleThe cultural work of photography in Canada
Author
Place of publicationMontreal
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
Year of publication2011
Pagination279 p.
IllustrationsZwart-Wit en kleur
Dimensions27 x 24 cm.
MaterialAnthologie
Document TypeBook
ISBN9780773538610
Bibliographic NotesIncludes bibliographical references and index.
SubjectRepresentatie en fotografie
Abstract
We cite from the COVER:
"How have photographs contributed to visualizing the "imagined community" of Canada? In what ways does the dissemination of photographs in the media and through exhibitions shape our understanding of the past? How have photographs been used to reanimate the past through memory work?"
"An in-depth study on the use of photographic imagery from the late nineteenth century to the present, The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada provides a thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in representing Canadian identities. In essays that draw on a diversity of photographic forms - from the snapshot and advertising image to works of photographic art - contributors present a variety of critical approaches to photography studies, examining themes ranging from photography's part in the formation of the geographic imaginary to Aboriginal self-identity and notions of citizenship."
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CONTENT:
Part 1: Visual Imaginings --
1. Felix Man's "Canada": imagined geographies and pre-texts of looking Joan M. Schwartz --
2. Economic necessity, political incentive, and international entrepreneurialism: the "frontier" photography of Hannah Maynard /Carol Williams --
3. Photography, ethnology, and the domestic arts: interpreting the Sir Daniel Wilson album / Andrea Kunard --
4. John Vanderpant's Canada /Jill Delaney --
5. Returning fire, pointing the canon: Aboriginal photography as resistance Sherry Farrell Racette --
Part 2: Circulating Narratives --
6. Colonizing images: the roles of collected photographs in colonial discourse Robert Evans --
7. Shooting immigrants: ethnic difference in early twentieth-century press photography / Sarah Bassnett --
8. Picturing communism: Yousuf Karsh, Canadair, and Cold War advertising / James Opp --
9. The economic nationalism of Weekend Magazine / Sarah Stacy --
10. Photojournalism and awards: the aesthetics and ethics of press pictures in Canadian contests Vincent Lavoie --
Part 3: Remembering and Forgetting --
11. Unsettling acts: photography as decolonizing testimony in centennial memory / Lynne Bell --
12. On photographing a dirty bomb John O'Brian --
13. Atomic photographs in a fallout shelter Blake Fitzpatrick --
14. Emergence from the shadow: First People's photographic perspectives /Jeff Thomas --
Part 4: Writing Photography in Canada -
15. Writing photography in Canada: a historiography / Andrea Kunard and Carol Payne.
Bibliography / Index
"How have photographs contributed to visualizing the "imagined community" of Canada? In what ways does the dissemination of photographs in the media and through exhibitions shape our understanding of the past? How have photographs been used to reanimate the past through memory work?"
"An in-depth study on the use of photographic imagery from the late nineteenth century to the present, The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada provides a thought-provoking discussion of the role photography has played in representing Canadian identities. In essays that draw on a diversity of photographic forms - from the snapshot and advertising image to works of photographic art - contributors present a variety of critical approaches to photography studies, examining themes ranging from photography's part in the formation of the geographic imaginary to Aboriginal self-identity and notions of citizenship."
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CONTENT:
Part 1: Visual Imaginings --
1. Felix Man's "Canada": imagined geographies and pre-texts of looking Joan M. Schwartz --
2. Economic necessity, political incentive, and international entrepreneurialism: the "frontier" photography of Hannah Maynard /Carol Williams --
3. Photography, ethnology, and the domestic arts: interpreting the Sir Daniel Wilson album / Andrea Kunard --
4. John Vanderpant's Canada /Jill Delaney --
5. Returning fire, pointing the canon: Aboriginal photography as resistance Sherry Farrell Racette --
Part 2: Circulating Narratives --
6. Colonizing images: the roles of collected photographs in colonial discourse Robert Evans --
7. Shooting immigrants: ethnic difference in early twentieth-century press photography / Sarah Bassnett --
8. Picturing communism: Yousuf Karsh, Canadair, and Cold War advertising / James Opp --
9. The economic nationalism of Weekend Magazine / Sarah Stacy --
10. Photojournalism and awards: the aesthetics and ethics of press pictures in Canadian contests Vincent Lavoie --
Part 3: Remembering and Forgetting --
11. Unsettling acts: photography as decolonizing testimony in centennial memory / Lynne Bell --
12. On photographing a dirty bomb John O'Brian --
13. Atomic photographs in a fallout shelter Blake Fitzpatrick --
14. Emergence from the shadow: First People's photographic perspectives /Jeff Thomas --
Part 4: Writing Photography in Canada -
15. Writing photography in Canada: a historiography / Andrea Kunard and Carol Payne.
Bibliography / Index
| Copy number | R021416 |
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| Shelf mark | CDN ANTH PAYNE.C 2011 |