Northern Exposures

To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Most of us have never been there, yet images of the region are within easy reach: in magazine racks, on coffee tables, and on television, computer, and movie screens. Here, Peter Geller uncovers the history behind these popular conceptions of [...]
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To many, the North is a familiar but inaccessible place. Most of us have never been there, yet images of the region are within easy reach: in magazine racks, on coffee tables, and on television, computer, and movie screens. Here, Peter Geller uncovers the history behind these popular conceptions of the Canadian North. "Northern Exposures" looks at the photographic and film practice of the three major colonial institutions in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic - the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company - in the first half of the 20th century. Their visual representations of the region were widely circulated in official publications and presented in film shows and lantern slide lectures. This book sheds light on 20th-century visual culture and the relationship between photographic ways of seeing and the expansion of colonial power, and raises questions about the role of visual representation in interpreting the past.Illustrated with eighty-six images from photographs and films of the period, this book will appeal to those interested in Canadian and cultural history, Northern and Aboriginal studies, film and communication, anthropology, and visual culture.