Arctic images in context

• Published in: Lychnos: Årsbok för idé- och lärdomshistoria
• Main Author: Janicke S. Kaasa
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Danish; English; Norwegian; Swedish
• Published: Lärdomshistoriska samfundet 2024
• Subjects: travel writing; arctic photography; imagetext; Richard Harrington; Padleimiut; Canadian Arctic; History of scholarship and learning. The humanities; AZ20-999; Arctic; Padlei
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.48202/25048; https://doaj.org/article/1823df21a1e4470faddd5b936589775c

The article explores how Richard Harrington’s travelogue The Face of the Arctic (1952) responds to and represents the changing Canadian Arctic at the beginning of the Cold War, with a focus on Harrington’s famous photographs of the Padlei famine that were essential in changing the public’s image of...