Marking Oneself: Use of Photographs by Native Americans of the Southern Northwest Coast
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Carolyn J. Marr
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 3, Special Issue on The Shadow Catcher: The Uses of Native American Photography, 1996, pp. 51-64
Description
Examines some photographers' motivations for doing photographs and the reactions of those being photographed, and argues that Natives Americans wish to preserve and interpret their own histories with photographs that illustrate all facets of their lives.