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Shadows on Glass: The Indian World of Ben Wittick. (book reviews)
American Indian Quarterly, The, March, 1994 by Lessard, F. Dennis
Shadows on Glass by Patricia Janis Broder purports to be a survey of the Indian photographic work of Ben Wittick in the Southwest from 1878 to 1903. The book is divided into ten sections. "Portraits of Change" gives an overview of life in the Southwest for Indians and whites during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
It was a time of radical change and cultural upheaval for Native people. The second chapter deals with Ben Wittick's life and photographic work and the remaining chapters are devoted to brief histories and cultural synopses of Southwestern t tribal ...
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