Faking Death Canadian Art Photography And The Canadian Imagination by Penny Cousineau-Levine - May 10, 2004

This volume is the first book-length, i-dept study of contemporary Canadian art photography, it examines the work of morth 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. The author argues that Canadian photographers exhibit an ambivalent preoccupation with gruesome subjects such as death, bondage, and entrapment, as well as a fascination with 'elsewhere' and duality, subverting the documentary tradition and other stylistic idioms for their own distinctive and often transcendent ends. Notes, Bibliography, Photographic Works, Index, 324 pages.