Colonial Encounters at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: "Unsettling" the Personal Photograph Albums of Andrew Onderdonk and Benjamin Leeson.
Photography has been used by settlers to document and fictionalize colonial encounters in Canada since the mid-nineteenth century as an attempt to displace Indigenous peoples from the land, to contain them within settler albums. In this essay, the author looks at visual practices of settler photogra...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Canadian Studies Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 227 - 268 |
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