Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City 9780228013808

An innovative study on photography’s role in the liberal reform of early twentieth-century Toronto.

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English Pages 228 [221] Year 2022

Picturing Toronto: Photography and the Making of a Modern City
9780228013808

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Sarah Bassnett

Table of contents :
Cover
Picturing Toronto
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I The City
1 Making a Modern City
2 Visuality and City Planning
Section II Liberal Subjects
3 Instruments of Reform
4 Framing Citizenship
5 Arthur Goss and the Portraiture of Modern Subjectivity
Conclusion
Illustrations Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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