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Portrait of a Cree Man in Sun Dance Regalia
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Portrait of a Cree man in Sun Dance regalia
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A man from the Cree First Nation poses in full Sun Dance regalia at Hobbema. The geometric pattern on his vest, arms and belt is composed entirely of intricate, highly skilled beadwork.
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Miriam Green Ellis
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sundance 006
Alberta
First Nations
Hobbema
portrait
Sun Dance
traditional arts
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glass slide
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Portrait of a Metis Trader
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Metis trader
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A portrait of a Metis trader. This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured.
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Miriam Green Ellis
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s014
magic lantern
Metis
portrait
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Photographies
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Portrait of A.C. Rankin and His Brother Playing Lacrosse
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William Notman (photographer)
Eugène L'Africain (colourist)
Date
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1887
72.4 x 51.6 cm
TR 140 N68 N913 1887 folio
Description
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This portrait of two boys playing lacrosse is both a photograph and a painting, created by applying paint to a photograph. The portrait was produced by William Notman’s studio, which had artists on staff to transform photographs like this one into works of fine art. This family portrait points towards the twentieth-century tradition of <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity/1900-to-1969/snapshot-albums">family snapshots</a>. However, due to its large size </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and painted surface, the result is less like a family snapshot and more like an elite portrait painting, comparable to Thomas Gainborough’s </span><a href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/thomas-gainsborough-the-painters-daughters-chasing-a-butterfly" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Painter’s Daughters Chasing a Butterfly</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (1759). </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This example demonstrates one way that photography could serve as a “humble servant” of art, as <a href="https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/on-photography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Baudelaire</a> suggested in 1859, and of the concern</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">—also articulated by Baudelaire—that photography’s dependence on realism would stifle the artist’s imagination.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/william-notman/biography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">William Notman</a> opened his first photographic studio in 1856 in Montreal, and later expanded to additional cities in Canada. His studios attracted an elite clientele, and h</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">is 1865 publication </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3154"><i>Portraits of British Americans</i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">highlights some of the well-known figures who had their photographs taken by Notman’s firm. </span></p>
colour
portrait
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Portrait of Alex Stefansson
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'Alex Stefannson'
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A portrait of a young Inuit boy from Aklavik, Northwest Territories. Alex Stefansson is the son of Mrs. Stefansson and famed Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
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Miriam Green Ellis
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p068
Aklavik
album photos
children
Inuit
Northwest Territories
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glass slide
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Portrait of Alikomiak
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Nineteen-year-old Inuit man convicted of murder
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Portrait of a young Inuit man, Alikomiak. He was arrested, along with fellow Inuit hunter Tatimagana, for the murder of four Inuit at Coronation Gulf in 1921. Alikomiak shot and killed an RCMP officer, W.A. Doak, and an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, Otto Binder, while in custody at Tree River. Both Alikomiak and Tatimagana were sentenced to death by hanging.
This magic lantern slide has been hand-coloured, and is also available as a photo print in Miriam Green Ellis' photo album.
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Miriam Green Ellis
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s004
Inuit
magic lantern
portrait
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Portrait of Alikomiak
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Alikomiak
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Portrait of a young Inuit man, Alikomiak. He was arrested, along with fellow Inuit hunter Tatimagana, for the murder of four Inuit at Coronation Gulf in 1921. Alikomiak shot and killed an RCMP officer, W.A. Doak, and an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, Otto Binder, while in custody at Tree River. Both Alikomiak and Tatimagana were sentenced to death by hanging.
This image is also represented among Miriam Green Ellis' hand-coloured magic lantern slides.
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Miriam Green Ellis
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Miriam Green Ellis
album photos
Inuit
portrait
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photographic print
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Portrait of Bishop Grouard
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Portrait of Bishop Grouard at the Edmonton train station
Description
An account of the resource
Bishop Grouard, an Oblate missionary, at the Edmonton train station, June, 1922. He oversaw the vicariate of Athabasca-Mackenzie, and was active in the North for half a century. Bishop Grouard is credited with bringing the first printing press to Athabasca country.
Creator
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Miriam Green Ellis
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p001
Alberta
album photos
Catholic priest
Edmonton
portrait
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Photographies
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Title
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Portraits of British Americans
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Fennings Taylor (author)
William Notman (photographer)
Date
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1865
21.0 x 14.5 cm
FC 25 T228 1865
Description
An account of the resource
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Portraits of British Americans</em> demonstrates some of the challenges of circulating knowledge through photographs in the mid-nineteenth century. Though these </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObveSq3cMkw" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">albumen prints</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">could be mass-produced, each print had to be individually pasted onto the page in order to combine it with text in the form of an illustrated book.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This book was published by the photographer </span><a href="https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/william-notman/biography/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">William Notman</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who ran a successful photographic firm based in Montreal, with branches in several other cities in Eastern Canada and the United States. Notman was an aggressive entrepreneur, and this volume likely functioned as a promotional tool for his portraits, which made up the bulk of his business. Notman’s elegant studio, use of artistic backdrops, and innovative printing techniques drew an elite clientele, who would have been drawn to the idea of joining the ranks of eminent British Americans by having a portrait taken by the “photographer to the Queen,” a title that Notman secured in 1860. The <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3053">portrait of A. C. Rankin and his brother</a> provides an example of a particularly lavish portrait produced by Notman’s studio. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of the photographs of Western Canada included in this exhibition were taken by Notman’s photographic firm, such as </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3056"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">CPR</span></i><i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 1887</span></i></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><em><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3148"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photographs of the Canadian Rockies, Fraser River, Yellowstone Park, etc</span></a></em>, and contributed to<span style="font-weight: 400;"> an <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/memory-and-identity">imagined geography</a> of Canada. With these other photographs in mind, consider what this volume and its photographs suggest about the identity of British Americans. <br /><br />A full scan of this book is available through the <a href="https://archive.org/details/portraitsofbriti01tayluoft/page/n4/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internet Archive</a>.</span></p>
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William Notman
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Photographies
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Portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Around the same time as photography’s discovery, <a href="https://library.vicu.utoronto.ca/collections/special_collections/george_baxter/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Baxter</a> developed a process of colour printing known as <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/glossary-of-art-terms/chromolithograph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">chromolithography</a>, which he patented in 1835. The portraits of the Emperor and Princess of Prussia seen here employ that process in order to create r<span>ichly-coloured portraits that commemorate the powerful and the wealthy. In comparison to </span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125">daguerreotypes</a><span><span><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3125"> of middle-class patrons like that of Mrs Morrow</a>, these could be, and were intended to be, circulated widely in order to promote a public identity. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">View Baxter's <i><a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3033">Cabinet of Paintings</a></i>, another example of the chromolithographic process, as well as the <a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/donald-and-barbara-cameron-collection-of-george-baxter-prints" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cameron Collection of George Baxter Prints</a>, housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span></span>
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1855 <br />21.0 x 16.5 cm <br />NE 1860 B2 A7 P75 1858 (<em>Princess Royal, Princess of Prussia</em>) <br />NE 1860 B2 A7 V58 1855 (<em>Vive L'Empereur!</em>)
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George Baxter (creator)
chromolithography
daguerreotype
George Baxter
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Photographies
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Title
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Postal Souvenirs
Date
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[1920]
27.5 x 35.0 cm
FC 3234.2 P732 PE001561
Description
An account of the resource
<span style="font-weight: 400;">“Postal Souvenirs” provides an example of what the faster exposures of the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0eIH69QWd8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">gelatin process</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> could achieve. Here, a trip to a rodeo provided an opportunity to capture the sense of movement that eluded earlier nineteenth-century photographers. The album also provides an example of the day-to-day memories that could be recorded and preserved once the camera became commonplace. It is noteworthy that some of these photographs were printed as <a href="https://omeka.library.ualberta.ca/exhibits/show/photograpies/item/3096">postcards</a>.<br /><br />This album is part of the <a href="https://bpsc.library.ualberta.ca/collections/prairie-ephemera" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Prairie Ephemera Collection</a> housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.</span>
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photographer unknown
postcard