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Description of  Through a Native Lens: American Indian Photography (Volume 37) (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West) Ed 3

What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American Indians, and his worksalong with pictures by other non-Native photographerscame to define the field. Yet beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves started using cameras to record their daily activities and to memorialize tribal members. Read more