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Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Author
Title
[Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation].
Production
[Vermont], [2010-2011]
Physical Description
10 linear feet (7 boxes)
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Photographs signed by the photographer on verso with accompanying manuscript captions.
Provenance
Purchased from John Willis on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2011, and gift of John Willis, 2011.
Organization
Organized into five series: I. Arizona, 2011. II. Cambodia, 2010-2011. III. Deteriorating Media, 2011. IV. New Mexico, 2010-2011. V. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 2011.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
John Willis is a documentary photographer and an instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.
Summary
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, chiefly in 2010-2011. The collection also includes composite images related to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a group of images from a series, "Deteriorating Media," that documents deteriorating magazines at the home of Leroy Reddest of Lost Dog Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
A panoramic photograph of Arizona shows a "wheatpaste" photographic poster mural at a construction site by physician photographer James Edward Thomas, also known as Chip Thomas or "jetsonorama."
Photographs of New Mexico include views at Almagordo, the White Sands Missile Range Museum, and White Sands National Monument.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation document activities at the Oglala Lakota Nation Wacipi Rodeo Fair held at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, August 2011, which include a traditional pow wow parade and dancing, as well as participants and spectators at a basketball tournament, hip hop dancing competition, and rap music contest. Other images of the reservation include views of the gravesite of Red Cloud at the Holy Rosary Mission Church Cemetery, the Lakota Baptist Church, Yellow Bear Dam, parks, and playgrounds, as well as portraits of Lakota and Oglala individuals and groups.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 12, 2015
Indexes/Finding aids
Finding aid available.
References
John Willis, Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
John Willis, Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Inkjet prints.
Panoramas.
Panoramic photographs.
Photographic prints.
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