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

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

Capturing a vision of Canadian nationalism.

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