Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 155
Content Description
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites, events, and persons in Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota in 2010-2011.
Photographs of Arizona include views of Canyon de Chelly and Winslow as well as 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 or "jetsonorama." Other images include views of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant located near Page.
A single view in Connecticut documents a billboard near Waterbury.
Photographs of New Mexico include views of El Santuario de Chimayó in Chimayo, Edgewood, El Morro National Monument, Penitentiary of New Mexico, Silver City, Truth or Consequences, and Zuni Indian Reservation.
Photographs of South Dakota document sites at Interior as well as documenting the town's Interior Frontier Days, a rodeo held on Independence Day weekend.
The inkjet prints in this series measure 28.8 x 43.2 centimeters on paper of various sizes approximately 33 x 48 centimeters.
Signed by photographer and manuscript titles on verso of most prints.
Photographs of Arizona include views of Canyon de Chelly and Winslow as well as 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 or "jetsonorama." Other images include views of the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant located near Page.
A single view in Connecticut documents a billboard near Waterbury.
Photographs of New Mexico include views of El Santuario de Chimayó in Chimayo, Edgewood, El Morro National Monument, Penitentiary of New Mexico, Silver City, Truth or Consequences, and Zuni Indian Reservation.
Photographs of South Dakota document sites at Interior as well as documenting the town's Interior Frontier Days, a rodeo held on Independence Day weekend.
The inkjet prints in this series measure 28.8 x 43.2 centimeters on paper of various sizes approximately 33 x 48 centimeters.
Signed by photographer and manuscript titles on verso of most prints.
Dates
- 2010-2011
Creator
- Willis, John, 1957- (Photographer)
Language of Materials
Inscriptions in English.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from John Willis on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 2012.
Arrangement
Organized into three series: I. Arizona, 2010-2011, II. New Mexico, 2011, III. South Dakota, 2011.
Extent
5 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
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, events, and persons in Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota in 2010-2011.
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.
Processing Information
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- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Chimayo (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Chinle (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Connecticut -- Pictorial works
- Edgewood (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- El Morro National Monument (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Fourth of July -- South Dakota -- Interior -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- Pictorial works
- Indians of North America -- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- Portraits
- Inkjet prints
- Interior (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Navajo Indian Reservation -- Pictorial works
- Navajo Indians -- Pictorial works
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- Pictorial works
- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Photographs
- Rodeos -- South Dakota -- Interior -- Pictorial works
- Silver City (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- South Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Thomas, James Edward, 1957-
- Truth or Consequences (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Waterbury (Conn.) -- Pictorial works
- Window Rock (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Winslow (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Zuni Indian Reservation (N.M.) -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the John Willis Photographs of Arizona, Connecticut, New Mexico, and South Dakota
- 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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Location
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