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Through a Native Lens - American Indian Photography (Hardcover)
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Through a Native Lens - American Indian Photography (Hardcover)
Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West
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What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth
century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American
Indians, and his works - along with pictures by other non-Native
photographers - came to define the field. Yet beginning in the
second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves
started using cameras to record their daily activities and to
memorialize tribal members. Through a Native Lens offers a
refreshing, new perspective by highlighting the active
contributions of North American Indians, both as patrons who
commissioned portraits and as photographers who created
collections. In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn
Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United
States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and
integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyzes
date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and
1940. To account for Native activity both in front of and behind
the camera, the author divides her survey into two parts. Part I
focuses on Native participants, including such public figures as
Sarah Winnemucca and Red Cloud, who fashioned themselves in
deliberate ways for their portraits. Part II examines Native
professional, semiprofessional, and amateur photographers. Drawing
from tribal and state archives, libraries, museums, and individual
collections, Through a Native Lens features photographs - including
some never before published - that range from formal portraits to
casual snapshots. The images represent multiple tribal communities
across Native North America, including the Inland Tlingit, Northern
Paiute, and Kiowa. Moving beyond studies of Native Americans as
photographic subjects, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how
indigenous peoples took control of their own images and
distinguished themselves as pioneers of photography.
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