Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer

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Carol Geddes

Picturing a People: George Johnston, Tlingit Photographer

Documentary
Canada | 50 min | 1997

This documentary, by filmmaker Carol Geddes, is a unique portrait of George Johnston, a photographer who was himself a creator of portraits and a keeper of his culture. Johnston cared deeply about the traditions of the Tlingit people, and he recorded a critical period in the history of the Tlingit nation. As Geddes says, his legacy was "to help us dream the future as much as to remember the past."

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Government of Yukon Canada Council for the Arts Lotteries Yukon Yukon Film Society