The Anthropology of Historical Photography in a Protected Area: Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta
Keywords:
photography, archives, national parks, posthumanism, International Boundary Commission, G. M. Dawson, CanadaAbstract
This article offers an ethnographic and anthropol
ogical investigation of historical photography carried out in
Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. I recount my attempts
to precisely retake a photograph from its historical location.
Once there, I scrutinize photography's presences to better
understand how a photograph emerges as an event. Photogra
phy can be used to understand human-wind encounters, the
force of effort, the conventions that shape place, the impact
of available water and how these come to bear on visibility
and invisibility, life and death, in the present.
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