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Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Steven D. Hoelscher
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Description for Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
Paperback. A tourist mecca, the area known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk. This title places H H Bennett within the context of contemporary artists and photographers of American Indians and examines the receptions of this legacy by the Ho-Chunk. Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture. Num Pages: 212 pages, 86 b/w photos, 3 maps, 1 chart. BIC Classification: 1KBBNW; AJC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 203 x 13. Weight in Grams: 726.
Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett now turned his camera upon the Ho-Chunk themselves, and ... Read more
Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep gorges and fantastic rock formations, H. H. Bennett now turned his camera upon the Ho-Chunk themselves, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in American Thought and Culture
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299226046
SKU
V9780299226046
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About Steven D. Hoelscher
Steven D. Hoelscher is associate professor of American studies and geography at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
Reviews for Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
A model for photographic research. - Martha A. Sandweiss, Amherst College, author of Print the Legend: Photography and the American West