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North American Indian Portraits

Door Thomas W. Kavanagh

Categorie	Geschiedenis Noord-Amerika
Boeknummer	#329785-AD24
Titel	North American Indian Portraits
Auteur	Kavanagh, Thomas W.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Old Saybrook, CT : Konecky & Konecky
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	1568527551
ISBN13	9781568527550
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Orignal brown boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, copiously illustrated with (full page) b/w photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	The magnificent portraits of North American Indians collected in this volume were taken between the years 1908-13 on a series of three expeditions, sponsored by John Wanamaker, the department store magnate, and his son Rodman and led by Joseph Kossuth Dixon, a highly-skilled photographer and self-promoter. Unlike his better-known contemporary Edward Curtis, Dixon concentrated on portraiture and in so doing created an enduring collection of character studies. His subjects are not anonymous representatives of a time outside of history; they are living, breathing individuals, who can in most cases be identified. The Wanamaker expeditions had a political agenda; they were an attempt to save Indian culture from extinction by publicizing Indian history and thereby gaining citizenship for the m... (Lees verder)embers of the tribes in America. In 1908, the first expedition went to the Valley of the Little Bighorn in Montana, with the aim of making a movie version of Hiawatha with an all-Indian cast. The second expedition returned to the Valley, in 1909, for a meeting of what was expected to be the Last Great Indian Council. In 1913, Wanamaker sponsored the Expedition of Citizenship. This final expedition covering over 20,000 miles was undertaken in order to present the American flag, as a symbol of citizenship, to everyone of the 189 Indian tribes. The Indians were granted American citizenship in 1924. The three Wanamaker expeditions produced 11,000 negatives on glass plate and nitrate film, as well as fifty miles of motion picture film. Following the deaths of both Dixon and Rodman Wanamaker in the late 1920s, their Indian materials were dispersed. The bulk of the collection came into the possession of the William Hammond Mathers Museum at Indiana University. Thomas Kavanagh, has selected the prints for this important new volume and provided a lucid introduction, placing these photographic treasures in their proper historical, cultural, and artistic contexts.
Pagina's	191
Onderwerpen	Indianen (Noord-Amerika) (18)
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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