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1902 Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut - 1973 Cape Dorset, Baffin Island, Nunavut. 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... Read full biography
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 -... Read full biography
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 -... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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 som... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Eskimo, Inuit Culture: Genre and Figure
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Awards/Recognition
- •National Historic Person, Canadian Government Award
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Inuit, Eskimo