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Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota
Author
Title
[Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota].
Production
[Vermont], [2010-2011]
Physical Description
5.0 linear feet (3 boxes)
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
The inkjet prints in this series measure 28.8 x 43.2 centimeters on paper of various sizes approximately 33 x 48 centimeters.
Provenance
Purchased from John Willis on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2012.
Organization
Organized into three series: I. Arizona, 2010-2011, II. New Mexico, 2011, III. South Dakota, 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, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota in 2010-2011.
Photographs of Arizona include views of Canyon de Chelly and Winslow as well as communities at Navajo Nation including Chinle, Kayenta, and Tuba City, as well as discrete groups of images in Window Rock of the Navajo Military Graveyard and "wheatpaste" photographic poster murals by physician photographer James Edward Thomas, also known as Chip Thomas or "jetsonorama." Other images include views of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired powerplant located near Page.
A single view in Connecticut documents a billboard near Waterbury.
Photographs of New Mexico include views of El Santuario de Chimayó in Chimayo, Edgewood, El Morro National Monument, Penitentiary of New Mexico, Silver City, Truth or Consequences, and Zuni Indian Reservation.
Photographs of South Dakota document sites at Interior as well as documenting the town's Interior Frontier Days, a rodeo held on Independence Day weekend.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 26, 2018
Indexes/Finding aids
Finding aid available.
References
John Willis, Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
John Willis, Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Inkjet prints.
Photographs.
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