Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Content Description
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, chiefly in 2010-2011. The collection also includes composite images related to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a group of images from a series, "Deteriorating Media," that documents deteriorating magazines at the home of Leroy Reddest of Lost Dog Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
A panoramic photograph of Arizona shows a "wheatpaste" photographic poster mural at a construction site by physician photographer James Edward Thomas, also known as Chip Thomas or "jetsonorama."
Photographs of New Mexico include views at Almagordo, the White Sands Missile Range Museum, and White Sands National Monument.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation document activities at the Oglala Lakota Nation Wacipi Rodeo Fair held at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, August 2011, which include a traditional pow wow parade and dancing, as well as participants and spectators at a basketball tournament, hip hop dancing competition, and rap music contest. Other images of the reservation include views of the gravesite of Red Cloud at the Holy Rosary Mission Church Cemetery, the Lakota Baptist Church, Yellow Bear Dam, parks, and playgrounds, as well as portraits of Lakota and Oglala individuals and groups.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Dates
- 2010-2011
Creator
- Willis, John, 1957- (Author)
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, 2011, and gift of John Willis, 2011.
Arrangement
Organized into five series: I. Arizona, 2011. II. Cambodia, 2010-2011. III. Deteriorating Media, 2011. IV. New Mexico, 2010-2011. V. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 2011.
Extent
10 Linear Feet (7 boxes)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, chiefly in 2010-2011. The collection also includes composite images related to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a group of images from a series, "Deteriorating Media," that documents deteriorating magazines at the home of Leroy Reddest of Lost Dog Creek, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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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- Alamogordo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Basketball -- Tournaments -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Cambodia -- Pictorial works
- Hip-hop dance -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Indian dance -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Portraits
- Inkjet prints
- Lakota Indians -- Pictorial works
- Lakota Indians -- Portraits
- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Oglala Indians -- Pictorial works
- Oglala Indians -- Portraits
- Oglala Sioux Tribe -- Pictorial works
- Panoramas
- Panoramic photographs
- Phnom Penh (Cambodia) -- Pictorial works
- Photographic prints
- Pine Ridge (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Powwows -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Rap (Music) -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Red Cloud, 1822-1909 -- Death and burial -- Pictorial works.
- Sepulchral monuments -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- South Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Thomas, James Edward, 1957-
- White Sands Missile Range (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- White Sands National Monument -- Pictorial works
- Yellow Bull, Jennifer -- Portraits
Source
- Willis, John, 1957- (Donor)
- Title
- Guide to the John Willis Photographs of Arizona, Cambodia, New Mexico, and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew Daniel Mason
- Date
- October 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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