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Peter Pitseolak

Peter Pitseolak (1902 - 1973) was active/lived in Nunavut / Canada.  Peter Pitseolak is known for Inuit art, pioneering photography.

Peter Pitseolak (1902-1973) was an Inuit artist, historian, and pioneer photographer. He spent most of his life in traditional camps near Cape Dorset (Kingait) on the southwest coast of Baffin Island, in present-day Nunavut.

During his lifetime, the North was experiencing immense social change - from nomadic living to permanent settlements, from close family structures to formal social registration, from kayaks and spears to skidoos and rifles.

Concerned that much of the traditional knowledge - hunting techniques, stories, and myths - would be forgotten by his grandchildren's generation, Pitseolak used the camera to document a vanishing way of life.

Taken by an Inuk, an insider, Pitseolak's photographs offer a unique way of seeing the Inuit. He photographed himself, his friends, and his family in real situations, thereby avoiding the stereotypes of the Inuit that some white people perceived. Sometimes he staged photographs of people wearing traditional clothing and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3495 characters.]  Artist bio

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