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Picturing Indians : photographic encounters and tourist fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells

"Today a tourist Mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness - and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled considerably through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the attention of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett. Having built his reputation on his photographs of the Dells' steep-sided gorges and fantastic rock formations, H.H. Bennett now turned his camera upon the Ho-Chunk themselves, and thus began the many-layered relationship unfolded by Steven D. Hoelscher in Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©2008
Portraits
xxi, 194 pages . : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
9780299226008, 9780299226046, 029922600X, 0299226042
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Prologue: Photographic Encounters
1. Contact Zones: American Indians, Tourism, and Photography
2. "Viewing" Indians and Landscape in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin
3. Ho-Chunk Removals, Returns, and Survivance
4. Visual Dimensions of Bennett's Ho-Chunk Photographs
5. Photographic Practices as Profit-Driven Exchanges
6. The Changing Political Economy of Indian Photography and Art
Epilogue: Picturing Ho-Chunk Today
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