The Anthropology of Historical Photography in a Protected Area: Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This article offers an ethnographic and anthropological investigation of historical photography carried out inWaterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. I recount my attemptsto precisely retake a photograph from its historical location.Once there, I scrutinize photography's presences to betterunderstand how a photograph emerges as an event. Photography can be used to understand human-wind encounters, theforce of effort, the conventions that shape place, the impactof available water and how these come to bear on visibilityand invisibility, life and death, in the present.
Source: Anthropologica
Author: Trudi Lynn Smith
Language: English
Topic: Photographic and Visual Arts
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W606671955