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Northern Exposures
Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
by PETER GELLER
ISBN: 0774809272
ISBN-13: 9780774809276
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Univ of British Columbia Pr
Published date: 2004
Size: 6.25 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 258
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Northern Exposures : Photographing and Filming the Canadian North, 1920-45
Geller, Peter
Vancouver, British Columbia: UBC / University of British Columbia Press, 2004. First edition, hardcover (pictorial boards, was not issued with a dustjacket), 258 pages. Heavily illustrated with rare archival photographs. A Fine, brand new copy. "Looks at the photographic and film practice of the three major colonial institutions in the Canadian 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... sheds new light on twentieth century visual culture and on the relationship between photographic ways of seeing and the expansion of colonial power.". ( more information) Offered by NARNIA BOOKS (Canada)
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