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Canadian photojournalism during the first world war
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Robertson, Peter |
| Copyright Year | 1978 |
| Description | During the nineteenth century, Canada's Department of Militia and Defence took a curiously passive attitude towards photography. Despite the availability of suitable cameras, lenses, negatives, and the halftone process which made possible the publication of photographs in periodicals and newspapers, the Department made no attempt to use photographs either to communicate with the public or to document its activities for posterity. Such officially-sponsored photography as did occur was British rather than Canadian, the work of surveying parties of the Corps of Royal $Engineers^{1}$. Certainly, James Peters and Henry Woodside photographed, respectively, the Northwest Rebellion and the South African War; however, both these officers were amateur rather than professional photographers, cultivating their hobby in military time, seemingly without official authorization or objection. There were of course commercial photographers who photographed military subjects from time to time, but they were hardly the Canadian equivalents of such well-known photographers as Roger Fenton in England, or Matthew Brady and his associates in the Unites States. Given the Canadian military authorities' apparent lack of interest in photography, the official Canadian military photographs of the First World War were an unprecedented phenomenon. |
| Related Links | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03087298.1978.10442955?needAccess=true |
| Ending Page | 52 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 37 |
| ISSN | 03087298 |
| e-ISSN | 21507295 |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.1978.10442955 |
| Journal | History of Photography |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Volume Number | 2 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 1978-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Journal: History of Photography History Canadian Photojournalism World War Photojournalism During the First World |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Visual Arts and Performing Arts |
