Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 148
Content Description
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota chiefly in 2013. Most of the 219 inkjet prints are single images with small groups of diptychs and triptychs.
Photographs of Arizona include views of communities at Navajo Nation including Chinle, Kayenta, and Tuba City, as well as discrete groups of images in Window Rock of the Navajo Military Graveyard and "wheatpaste" photographic poster murals by physician photographer James Edward Thomas, also known as Chip Thomas and "jetsonorama." Other images include views of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired powerplant located near Page, as well as views of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.
Photographs of Nebraska include views of Whiteclay as well as "Camp Zero Tolerance," a protest camp established in April-June 2013 at the border of Nebraska and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that sought to stop alcohol sales in Whiteclay to reservation residents. Informal portraits of protesters include Bryan V. Brewer, the Oglala Sioux Tribal President, as well as camp spokeswoman Tonia Stands.
Photographs of New Mexico include views of landscapes in Edgewood.
Photographs of North Dakota include views of the derelict San Haven Sanitarium owned by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota as well as a small group of images of the aftermath of a trailer home fire at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. A group of images documents the oil boom in Williston and the housing for petroleum industry workers.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation include views of communities comprising Allen, Batesland, Kyle, Manderson, Pine Ridge. Porcupine, Potato Creek, and Sharps Corner. Sites documented include staff housing for the Indian Health Service Pine Ridge Hospital, public housing at Potato Creek, sun dance grounds at Porcupine owned by Warfield Moose, and discrete images of the homes of the Dullknife and Morrison families in Potato Creek. Events documented include a memorial service for Alma Richard in 2011 and a fireworks celebration by the Oglala Sioux Tribe for the Fourth of July in 2013. Portraits of individuals include Mercedes Little Spotted Horse, Santana Little Spotted Horse, Andrea Reddest Marshall, Warfield Moose, Wilbur Morrison, and Jennifer Yellow Bull.
Photographs of South Dakota include views of the Black Hills as well as the communities of Interior, Oglala, and Scenic. Images of the Black Hills include Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak) and Mount Rushmore National Memorial as well as portraits of Kagaba shamans visiting the area from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. Images also document a Fourth of July rodeo at Interior and a portrait of Quincy Red Feather with another man.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Photographs of Arizona include views of communities at Navajo Nation including Chinle, Kayenta, and Tuba City, as well as discrete groups of images in Window Rock of the Navajo Military Graveyard and "wheatpaste" photographic poster murals by physician photographer James Edward Thomas, also known as Chip Thomas and "jetsonorama." Other images include views of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired powerplant located near Page, as well as views of Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell.
Photographs of Nebraska include views of Whiteclay as well as "Camp Zero Tolerance," a protest camp established in April-June 2013 at the border of Nebraska and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that sought to stop alcohol sales in Whiteclay to reservation residents. Informal portraits of protesters include Bryan V. Brewer, the Oglala Sioux Tribal President, as well as camp spokeswoman Tonia Stands.
Photographs of New Mexico include views of landscapes in Edgewood.
Photographs of North Dakota include views of the derelict San Haven Sanitarium owned by the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota as well as a small group of images of the aftermath of a trailer home fire at the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. A group of images documents the oil boom in Williston and the housing for petroleum industry workers.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation include views of communities comprising Allen, Batesland, Kyle, Manderson, Pine Ridge. Porcupine, Potato Creek, and Sharps Corner. Sites documented include staff housing for the Indian Health Service Pine Ridge Hospital, public housing at Potato Creek, sun dance grounds at Porcupine owned by Warfield Moose, and discrete images of the homes of the Dullknife and Morrison families in Potato Creek. Events documented include a memorial service for Alma Richard in 2011 and a fireworks celebration by the Oglala Sioux Tribe for the Fourth of July in 2013. Portraits of individuals include Mercedes Little Spotted Horse, Santana Little Spotted Horse, Andrea Reddest Marshall, Warfield Moose, Wilbur Morrison, and Jennifer Yellow Bull.
Photographs of South Dakota include views of the Black Hills as well as the communities of Interior, Oglala, and Scenic. Images of the Black Hills include Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak) and Mount Rushmore National Memorial as well as portraits of Kagaba shamans visiting the area from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. Images also document a Fourth of July rodeo at Interior and a portrait of Quincy Red Feather with another man.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Dates
- 2011-2013
Creator
- Willis, John, 1957- (Photographer)
Language of Materials
Inscriptions in English.
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from John Willis on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2013, and gift of John Willis, 2013.
Arrangement
Organized into nine series: I. Arizona, 2013. II. Nebraska and Camp Zero Tolerance, 2013. III. New Mexico, 2013. IV. North Dakota, 2013. V. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 2013. VI. South Dakota, 2011-2013. VII. Diptychs, 2013. VIII. Triptychs, 2013. IX. Oversize Inkjet Prints.
Extent
32.8 Linear Feet ((16 boxes) + 1 roll)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota chiefly in 2013.
John Willis (born 1957)
John Willis is a documentary photographer and instructor of photography at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont. His monographs include Recycled Realities, co-authored with Tom Young (Center for American Places, 2002) and Views from the Reservation (Center for American Places, 2010). Willis has photographs in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, among others. He is also a co-founder with Bill Ledger of the In-Sight Photography Project, a photography outreach project to youth in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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- Allen (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Batesland (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Black Elk Peak (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) -- Pictorial works
- Brewer, Bryan V. -- Portraits
- Chinle (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Diptychs
- Edgewood (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Fourth of July -- South Dakota -- Interior -- Pictorial works
- Fourth of July -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge -- Pictorial works
- Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Inkjet prints
- Interior (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Kagaba Indians -- Portraits
- Kayenta (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Kyle (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Little Spotted Horse, Mercedes -- Portraits
- Little Spotted Horse, Santana -- Portraits
- Manderson (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Marshall, Andrea Reddest, 1943- -- Portraits
- Memorial service -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Morrison, Wilbur -- Portraits
- Mount Rushmore National Memorial (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- Pictorial works
- Nebraska -- Pictorial works
- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- North Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Oglala (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Oglala Indians -- Portraits
- Oglala Sioux Tribe -- Pictorial works
- Petroleum industry and trade -- North Dakota -- Williston -- Pictorial works
- Photographs
- Pine Ridge (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Pine Ridge Indian Hospital (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Porcupine (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Potato Creek (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Powell, Lake (Utah and Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Public housing -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Red Feather, Quincy -- Portraits
- Richard, Alma, 1952-2011 -- Death and burial -- Pictorial works
- Rodeos -- South Dakota -- Interior -- Pictorial works
- San Haven Sanitarium (Dunseith, N.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Scenic (S.D. : Township) -- Pictorial works
- Sharps Corner (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Thomas, James Edward, 1957-
- Triptychs
- Tuba City (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation (N.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Whiteclay (Neb.) -- Pictorial works
- Williston (N.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Window Rock (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Yellow Bull, Jennifer -- Portraits
Creator
- Willis, John, 1957- (Photographer)
- Title
- Guide to the John Willis Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- Matthew Daniel Mason and Jennifer Garcia
- Date
- August 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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