Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota
Collection
Call Number: WA Photos Folio 185
Content Description
Inkjet prints of photographs by John Willis that document sites and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota, 2013-2015. Most 101 inkjet prints depict landscapes and homes at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and formed part of a traveling one-day exhibition by John Willis and Brent Sturlaugson, House/Home: A Work in Progress, 2015-2016.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation comprise views of communities including Allen, Kyle, Manderson, Oglala, Pine Ridge, Porcupine, Potato Creek, and Wounded Knee. Many of the landscape images document trailers, homes, and other buildings in winter. Portraits of individuals include members of the White Mouse family as well as female prisoners at the Adult Offenders Facility operated by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Corrections.
Photographs of sites in Arizona include a view of a weathered United States flag at the Navajo Military Graveyard in Window Rock and a landscape at Homolovi State Park.
Photographs of sites in Nebraska and New Mexico consist of single images for each. These include building with graffiti in Whiteclay, Nebraska, and view of missiles at the White Sands Missile Museum in White Sands, New Mexico.
Photographs of South Dakota consist of a few views of buildings and a landscape in Scenic.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Photographs of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation comprise views of communities including Allen, Kyle, Manderson, Oglala, Pine Ridge, Porcupine, Potato Creek, and Wounded Knee. Many of the landscape images document trailers, homes, and other buildings in winter. Portraits of individuals include members of the White Mouse family as well as female prisoners at the Adult Offenders Facility operated by the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Corrections.
Photographs of sites in Arizona include a view of a weathered United States flag at the Navajo Military Graveyard in Window Rock and a landscape at Homolovi State Park.
Photographs of sites in Nebraska and New Mexico consist of single images for each. These include building with graffiti in Whiteclay, Nebraska, and view of missiles at the White Sands Missile Museum in White Sands, New Mexico.
Photographs of South Dakota consist of a few views of buildings and a landscape in Scenic.
Signed, titled, and dated by the photographer on versos of prints.
Dates
- 2014-2015
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, 2015.
Arrangement
Organized into six series: I. Exhibition Material, 2015-2016. II. Arizona, 2013-2015. III. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 2014-2015. IV. Scenic, South Dakota, 2014. V. Whiteclay, Nebraska, 2014. VI. White Sands, New Mexico, 2015.
Extent
18.34 Linear Feet (11 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 and persons in Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota, 2013-2015. Most 101 inkjet prints depict landscapes and homes at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and formed part of a traveling one-day exhibition by John Willis and Brent Sturlaugson, House/Home: A Work in Progress, 2015-2016.
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.
Brent Sturlaugson
Brent Sturlaugson is an architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Design.
Processing Information
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- Allen (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Arizona -- Pictorial works
- Homolovi State Park (Ariz.) -- 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
- Kyle (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Manderson (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah -- Pictorial works
- Nebraska -- Pictorial works
- New Mexico -- Pictorial works
- Oglala (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Oglala Indians -- Portraits
- Oglala Sioux Tribe -- Pictorial works
- Photographs
- Pine Ridge (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Porcupine (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Potato Creek (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Prisoners -- South Dakota -- Pine Ridge Indian Reservation -- Portraits
- Public housing -- United States -- Pictorial works
- Saguaro National Park (Ariz.) -- Pictorial works
- Scenic (S.D. : Township) -- Pictorial works
- South Dakota -- Pictorial works
- Sturlaugson, Brent (Associated name)
- Whiteclay (Neb.) -- Pictorial works
- Wounded Knee (S.D.) -- Pictorial works
- Title
- Guide to the John Willis Photographs of Arizona, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and South Dakota
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew Daniel Mason
- Date
- February 2019
- 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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