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A Cold War Tourist and His Camera.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773590779
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Cold War Tourist and His CameraDDC classification:
  • 778.9/9355
LOC classification:
  • D842.2 -- .L364 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Setting Up the Screen -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Northern Outposts and the Heart of Empire -- THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR -- 2 Unwilling Cold War Players -- THE AFRICAN TOUR -- 3 Closing with the Enemy -- THE EUROPEAN TOUR -- Lights! -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Cold War-era imagery is defined by the striking contrast between the ideal of the nuclear family and the nightmare of nuclear annihilation. In 1963, Warren Langford, a Second World War air force veteran and career public servant, travelled through Europe, North America, and Africa as part of the National Defence College's curriculum of Cold War training. Langford, never before much interested in photography, bought a camera and produced some 200 slides of his travels. In A Cold War Tourist and His Camera, his art historian daughter and political scientist son bring his photographs - an unexpected combination of iconic images of Cold War dangers and touristic snapshots - back into view.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Setting Up the Screen -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Northern Outposts and the Heart of Empire -- THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR -- 2 Unwilling Cold War Players -- THE AFRICAN TOUR -- 3 Closing with the Enemy -- THE EUROPEAN TOUR -- Lights! -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Cold War-era imagery is defined by the striking contrast between the ideal of the nuclear family and the nightmare of nuclear annihilation. In 1963, Warren Langford, a Second World War air force veteran and career public servant, travelled through Europe, North America, and Africa as part of the National Defence College's curriculum of Cold War training. Langford, never before much interested in photography, bought a camera and produced some 200 slides of his travels. In A Cold War Tourist and His Camera, his art historian daughter and political scientist son bring his photographs - an unexpected combination of iconic images of Cold War dangers and touristic snapshots - back into view.

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