Author: UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Title: Nanitch Early Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection
Description: North Vancouver, BC: Presentation House Gallery, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0920293980. Signed by Compiler; Card covers show very light shelf wear.; A bright, solid book. Signature of a member of the Langmann family, who owned the collection, on title page. ; Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 93 pages; An exhibition catalogue of " Photographs of British Columbia from the Langmann Collection offers the first interpretation of an important archive of photographs. The 96-page publication includes colour and B&W reproductions, five interpretive essays. The essays consider how the official activities of nineteenth-century working photographers using large-format, wet-plate cameras evolved with the introduction of amateur cameras and the mass distribution of promotional photography, as well as how colonial settler histories are revealed in the documentary photographs. The images include hand-coloured albumen prints, stereocards, cartes de visite and postcards. NANITCH--meaning "to look" in Chinook Jargon." (UBC website). Very Good+ .

Keywords: 0920293980 albumen Photographs Langmann Photography British Columbia PHOTOGRAPHY ARTS


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