Trading Gazes

Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880-1940
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8135-3170-0
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 179 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

A vast archive of photographs of the American West chronicled American expansion and the subordination of many Native peoples. Many of these images either recorded the ""vanishing Indian"" or idealized the ""civilized"" native. But most of these works, produced by male photographers, obscure a wide range of intricate stories about Anglo-Indian relations in a period when intensified restrictions of Native Americans' mobility and economy coincided with the rise of photography as a hobby and profession, as well as unprecedented opportunities for the ""new woman"" who was seeking to escape traditional gender constrictions. In Trading Gazes, these histories intersect in the stories of four unconventional women photographers and their subjects, providing readers with rich insights into a network of complex relationships. The essays in Trading Gazes offer historical and biographical contexts for their subjects, showing how each woman used photography in her relations of exchange with the people with whom she lived and worked. The women are: Jane Gay, who documented the allotment of land to the Nez Perce; Kate Cory, who made her home with the Hopi; Grace Nicholson, who worked with the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada. The book combines new historical information about turn-of-the-century North America with an unprecedented focus on women photographers in the U.S. and Canadian wests. In addition, the authors discuss how photographs can help us to understand the difficulties of recovering erased tribal pasts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernardin, Susan

Graulich, Melody

Macfarlane, Lisa

Tonkovich, Nicole

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Bernardin is an assistant professor of English at SUNY-Oneonta. Melody Graulich is a professor of English/American studies at Utah State University and the editor of Western American Literature. Lisa MacFarlane is an associate professor of English and coordinator of American studies at the University of New Hampshire. Nicole Tonkovich is an associate professor of English and director of graduate studies at the University of California at San Diego.