Chapter 6 Lessons with Leah: Rereading the Photographic Archive from the North

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Surveying the History of the Still Photography Division, 1941–1971
7. “Civil Servants with a Camera”: A History of Still Photography at the National Film Board of Canada 19
8. “The Materials of Citizenship”: Documentary and the Image of Childhood in NFB Still Photography 53
9. Readings in the Archive
10. “Made in Canada”: Labour, Gender, and Class during the Second World War 77
11. “For the Land … Has Always Held the Nation Together”: Landscape, Race, and the Nation in the 1950s and 1960s 107
12. “Ces visages qui sont un pays”: Portraiture, Citizenship, and Linguistic Identity in Centennial Canada 135
13. Revisiting the Archive
14. Lessons with Leah: Rereading the Photographic Archive from the North 165
15. Conclusion 189
16. Notes 195
17. Bibliography 223
18. Index 239