The Official Picture: The National Film Board of Canada's Still Photography Division and the Image of Canada, 1941-1971

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Dedication Page......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 8
Illustrations......Page 10
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 18
Introduction......Page 24
Part One. Surveying the History of the Still Photography Division, 1941–1971......Page 38
 1. “Civil Servants with a Camera”: A History of Still Photography at the National Film Board of Canada......Page 40
 2. “The Materials of Citizenship”: Documentary and the Image of Childhood in NFB Still Photography......Page 74
Part Two. Readings in the Archive......Page 98
 3. “Made in Canada”: Labour, Gender, and Class during the Second World War......Page 100
 4. “For the Land … Has Always Held the Nation Together”: Landscape, Race, and the Nation in the 1950s and 1960s......Page 128
 5. “Ces Visages Qui Sont Un Pays”: Portraiture, Citizenship, and Linguistic Identity in Centennial Canada......Page 156
Part Three. Revisiting the Archive......Page 184
 6. Lessons with Leah: Rereading the Photographic Archive from the North......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 210
Notes......Page 216
Bibliography......Page 244
Index......Page 260