Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination

Faking Death, the first book-length, in-depth study of contemporary Canadian art photography, examines the work of more than 120 Canadian photographers, revealing important aspects of Canadian identity and imagination. Penny Cousineau-Levine argues that Canadian photographers exhibit an ambivalent preoccupation with gruesome subjects such as death, bondage, and entrapment, as well as a fascination with "elsewhere" and duality, subverting the documentary tradition and other stylistic idioms for their own distinctive and often transcendent ends


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