Presenter: Nicolas Lampert
This session will examine how the visual media (photographs, paintings and prints) of the late 1800s/early 1900s in the U.S. was used to justify and promote western expansion and the forced removal of Native Americans from their homelands onto reservations. The presentation will look at the work and the motives of European-American photographers who mapped the West for corporate and State interests and how photographers such as Edward S. Curtis pictured Native Americans as a culture and people who were "disappearing" into the past. The talk will highlight the work of Native American photographers who countered this bias and used photography as a tool to help their community and to create a more accurate representation of their culture during this era.
