This is a vintage 1990 book by Patricia Janis Broder titled Shadows on Glass: The Indian World of Ben Wittick.

Published by Rowman & Littlefield. Softcover. First Edition.

For over 25 years, from 1878 until his death in 1903, Ben Wittick photographed the Indian world of the Southwest. Shadows on Glass brings together for the first time over 200 of Wittick's most essential images accompanied by an extraordinarily insightful and graceful text by Patricia Janis Broder, well known for her writings and lectures on the American West.

Shadows on Glass documents the closing days of the Southwest frontier, a time of irrevocable change for the Indian peoples that Wittick visited: Hualapai and Havasupai; Mohave and Yuma; Apache; Navajo; Pueblos of Acoma, Laguna, and Isleta; Zuni; and Hopi. Wittick's photographs, divided into field studies and posed portraits, capture the historical, cultural, and psychological realities of this transitional era. Although the field studies focus on daily life in the Indian world, the portraits offer greater insight into the fundamental truths of Indian life in the Southwest. The photographs - relying heavily on costumes, artifacts, painted backdrops, and foreground props - document an incredible confusion over cultural identity.

SIZE: Approx. 11 1/2" x 9". 160 pages.

------------------------------------------------
We provide in-house shipping. Low shipping costs! Combine items to save even more! Click on the Shipping tab below for details.

We will be continuing to sell items from a large estate with 1,000's of pieces in all paper ephemera categories. Each one different and unique. Please keep checking our auction catalogs.

Inside: Like new condition - near mint. Covers: Excellent condition with very light wear on the edges.