Robert Flaherty
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Emerging from a multicultural family in the Great Lakes region, he first gained recognition as a Toronto still-photographer whose portraits of Indigenous peoples and wildlife sparked his ambition to capture cultural life on film. After a disastrous loss of early footage, he secured French fur-trade financing and, in 1920, filmed the Inuit community that became the landmark documentary Nanook of th…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
