About this event
"Camera Shop Colonialism: Gallup, New Mexico, and the Bordertown Photographer as Frontier Archetype" This talk focuses on the photographs of 3 camera shop owners from Gallup, NM, who, between 1909-1960, took thousands of dramatic photographs of Native ceremonies and hauntingly beautiful western landscapes. They offer a visual record of the frontier that popularized the idea of Native peoples as "V




