Framing the west: race, gender, and the photographic frontier in the pacific northwest
Auteur :
Williams
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780195146523
Date de publication :
20 nov. 2003
Dimensions :
23,8 x 15,5 x 1,4 cm
Poids :
399 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that photography was intrinsic to British territorial expansion and settlement on the northwest coast. Williams shows how male and female settlers used photography to establish control over the territory and its indigenous inhabitants, as well as how native peoples eventually turned the technology to their own purposes.