"Northern Exposures looks at the photographic and film practice of the three major colonial institutions in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic in the first half of the twentieth century - the Canadian government, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Hudson's Bay Company. Their visual representations of the region were widely circulated in official publications and presented in film shows and lantern slide lectures." "It sheds new light on twentieth-century visual culture and on the relationship between photographic ways of seeing and the expansion of colonial power; while raising important questions about the role of visual representation in interpreting the past. Generously illustrated with over eighty-five archival images from photographs and films of the period, this book will appeal to anyone interested in Canadian and cultural history, Northern and Aboriginal studies, film and communication, art history, anthropology, and visual culture."--BOOK JACKET