Hiding in plain sight: Indigenous repression and resistance in photographs of the 1901 Royal Tour of Canada

Levy Gale, Sadie 2024. Hiding in plain sight: Indigenous repression and resistance in photographs of the 1901 Royal Tour of Canada. Cultural and Social History 10.1080/14780038.2024.2418417

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Abstract

Photographs taken by William James Topley and William McFarlane Notman of the 1901 royal tour of Canada reflect the intersection of technological and political changes shaping the dominion at the turn of the century. The advent of the handheld camera, while increasing the scope of the colonial gaze, also enabled photographers to take more candid photographs of the royal party and Indigenous attendees. The informal snapshot photographs taken by Topley and McFarlane Notman on handheld cameras at the tour disrupt the triumphalist visual narratives of the tour perpetuated in the settler colonial press. Yet the abundance of potential meanings inscribed within these photographs at the moment of their taking has been disciplined and obscured through their omission from visual economies of the tour, and subsequently, their categorisation within state archives according to settler colonial logics and perspectives.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Additional Information:	License information from Publisher: LICENSE 1: URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/, Start Date: 2024-12-03
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1478-0038
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	13 December 2024
Date of Acceptance:	10 October 2024
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2024 14:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/174726

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