The Anthropology of Historical Photography in a Protected Area: Life and Death in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta

Abstract

This article offers an ethnographic and anthropological investigation of historical photography carried out inWaterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. I recount my attemptsto precisely retake a photograph from its historical location.Once there, I scrutinize photography's presences to betterunderstand how a photograph emerges as an event. Photography can be used to understand human-wind encounters, theforce of effort, the conventions that shape place, the impactof available water and how these come to bear on visibilityand invisibility, life and death, in the present.

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