Face Pullers: Photographing Native Canadians, 1871-1939

by Brock V. Silversides

The Face Pullers documents a particularly rich period in the history of Canadian photography. These photographs of First nations people - spanning the period 1871 to 1939 - provide not only a fascinating glimpse of a vanished world, but also illuminate the ways in which myths and misunderstandings about Native people have influenced, from the earliest days, the images produced by non-Native photographers.

In the late nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1895618320
• ISBN13: 9781895618327
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Fifth House
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.5"