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The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada
ISBN: 9780773585720
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Fine Arts;

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?

Carol Payne is professor of art history and associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University, the author of The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971, and co-editor of The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada.

Carol Payne is assistant professor of art history, Carleton University.

Andrea Kunard is associate curator at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa.