Acting for the Camera: Horace Poolaw's Film Stills of Family, 1925-1950

Autor/in	Jerman, Hadley
Titel	Acting for the Camera: Horace Poolaw's Film Stills of Family, 1925-1950
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 31 (2011) 2, S.105-123 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	Photography; Visual Aids; American Indians; Films; Family (Sociological Unit); American Indian History; Oklahoma + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fotografie; Anschauungsmaterial; American Indian; Indianer; Film; Familie
Abstract	In the late 1920s, Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw began documenting daily life in southwestern Oklahoma with the camera. As Poolaw began making dramatically posed, narrative-rich portraits of family members, historian Lewis Mumford asserted that the modern individual now viewed him or herself "as a public character, "being watched"" by others. He further suggested that humankind developed a "camera-eye" way of looking at the world and at oneself as if continuously on display. Among Native Americans this sense of constantly posing for a camera--usually an outsider's camera--was certainly not a new development in 1930. Comanche writer Paul Chaat Smith compares the influence of cameras and Colt revolvers on Native peoples: "If one machine nearly wiped us out... another gave us immortality." Certainly, the invention of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851) impacted Native Americans' sense of self. The same could be said of motion pictures. In Smith's words, "We starred in scores of movies. The movies gave us international fame. Without them, Comanches would be an obscure chapter in Texas history books. With them, we live forever." (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10