Publication associated with the Russian Antique Salon , pertains to Nicholas de Grandmaison and includes images from the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies archive and art collections.
Notes
Publication is in Russian using Cyrillic script with partial, separate, typed translation to English
Adjusting the Lens explores the role of photography in contemporary renegotiations of the past and in Indigenous art activism. In moving and powerful case studies, contributors analyze photographic practices and heritage related to Indigenous communities in Canada, Australia, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States. In the process, they call attention to how Indigenous people are using old photographs in new ways to empower themselves, revitalize community identity, and decolonize the colonial record. Adjusting the Lens presents original research in this emerging field in Indigenous photography studies, juxtaposing the historical and the contemporary across a range of geographically and culturally distinctive contexts. The transnational perspective of this exciting collection challenges old ways of thinking and meaningfully advances the crucially important project of reclamation. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
Reading a Regional Colonial Photographic Archive: Residential Schools in Southern Alberta, 1880-1974 / Carol Williams ; Camera Encounters: Bourgeois Settler Women's Adentures in Sami Areas of Norway / Sigrid Lien and Hilde Wallem Nielssen ; Negotiating Meaning: John Moller's Photographs in Early Twentieth-Century Scandinavian Literature / Ingeborg Hovik ; Reclaiming Pasts, Reclaiming Futures: Indigenous Re-workings of Historical Photography in North America / Laura Peers ; Distruption and Testimony: Archival Photographs, Project Naming, and Inuit Memory in Nunavut / Carol Payne, with contributions by Beth Greehorn, Piita Irniq, Manitok Thompson, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, Sally Kate Webster, and Christina Williamson ; "Our Histories" in the Photographs of Others: Sami Approaches to Archival Visual Materials / Veli-Pekka Lehtola ; The Best Day for Me, Looking at These Old Photos: Returning Photographs to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander People by Jane Lydon and Donna Oxenham ; On Being with (a Photograph of) Sugar Bush Womxn: Towards Anishinaabe Feminist Archival Research Methods / waaseyaa'sin Chrisitne Sy ; Indigenous Culture Jamming: Suohpanterror and the Art of Articulating a Sami Political Community by Laura Junka-Aikio ; Negotiating Postcolonial Identity: Photography as Archive, Collaborative Aesthetics, and Storytelling in Contemporary Greenland / Mette Sandbye ; Photographic Portraits as Dialogical Contact Zones: The Portrait Gallery of Sapmi - Becoming a Nation at the Arctic University Museum of Norway / Hanne Hammer Stein ; Photographic Studies and Indigenous Photographies: Some Thoughts on Categories, Assumptions, and Theories / Elizabeth Edwards
This collection offers a unique contribution to the scholarship of Indian art in that it documents the effects of the transition period (roughly 1880-1940) on the art of an Indian people--in this case, the Blackfeet. In 1952 the collection was divided; half of it was given to the Museum of the Plains Indian, and the other half was retained by the Northwest Area Foundation. This catalogue that reunites the collection contains four essays, and illustrates more than 400 objects, most of which are Blackfeet. (from Abe Books)
Contents
Foreward - Ann T. Walton
Introduction - Ann T. Walton
The Louis W. Hill Sr. Collection of American Indian Art - Ann T. Walton
The Persistent Tradition: the Hill Collection from the viewpoint of a Studen of Blackfeet Indian Arts and Crafts - John C. Ewers
After the Buffalo Were Gone - Royal B. Hassrick
References Cited
Maps
Arts and Crafts of the Blackfeet and Their Neighbors - essays by John C. Ewers and Royal B. Hassrick, Catalogue Entries by Royal B. Hassrick and Anne E. Walton
Clothing
Children's Life
Tipi Furnishings
Tools, Utensils and Containers
Horse Gear
Weapons and Warfare
Pipes and Smoking Equipment
Musical Instruments
Religious Objects
Acknowledgements
Notes
In cooperation with the Indian Arts and Crafts Board of the United States Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., and the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota