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Lives and Landscapes

A Photographic Memoir of Outport Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949-1963

by (author) Elmer Harp

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
May 2003
Category
Photojournalism
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773570894
    Publish Date
    May 2003
    List Price
    $39.95

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Interested in studying early human activity in the area he came to be equally fascinated with life in outport communities. During the summers of 1949-50 and 1961-63, he explored the coast, travelling from one isolated outport village to the next, initially by open boat and later on rudimentary roads, vividly capturing everyday life in his journals and through his extensive Kodachrome slides. In her introduction Priscilla Renouf places Harp's story of rural northern Newfoundland in historical and anthropological context. She notes that there are economic and cultural continuities from prehistoric times to the present and shows that the fundamental structure of outport life based on fishing and hunting remains stable to this very day.

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Dartmouth College

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