The Anthropology of Historical Photography: with butterfly digital composite Dawson 1874 — Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park: A research program grounded in re-enactments of archival images to understand instability, ongoingness, and difference — what I consider as vital impulses in photography. Photographs are not only fixed as images or objects, but lively, entangled and emergent events (2003-present).

Waterton Lakes National Park

Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 8, 2016March 4, 2023

Read more about this project, Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park.

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