Views from the Reservation (Center Books on American Places (Numbered Hardcover)) by John Willis - 2010-09-15

Center for American Places. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 1935195123 . Clean and unmarked. ; Center Books On American Places; 11.4 X 10.4 X 0.9 inches; 184 pages .

Center for American Places, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 184 pages. Professor and photographer John Willis is well aware of the exploitation that sometimes occurs when photographers enter impoverished communities for a project. So, in 1992, when he first traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota, he assured the elders of the Oglala Lakota Sioux that he would not be exhibiting any of the images he took while there. Over time, however, Willis earned the respect and trust of the community, and the elders—hoping that the photographs might bring aid to their community—urged him to show his work. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. Record # 362165

Center for American Places. Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 1935195123 . Binding tight. Pages unmarked and bright. Orange-red stain on bottom edge and rear endpages. Pictorial cover has some wear at edges, including tape mark and some tiny dings. Dustjacket is worn at top and bottom edges, but still glossy. ; Center Books on American Places; 11.40 X 10.40 X 0.90 inches; 184 pages .

Chicago, IL: Center for American Places, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 184 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Includes CD. The product of several visits to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Views from the Reservation is meant to open our eyes, minds, and hearts to the life, culture, and conditions of the Oglala Lakota people. With his insightful and complex images Willis enlists several other voices to offer a more complete story: writer Kent Nerburn, who contributes an original essay; Lakota elders and Pine Ridge High School students, who offer poems; Emil Her Many Horses, the associate curator of the National Museum of the American Indian, Kevin Gover, the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, and Oglala Lakota artist Dwayne Wilcox. Accompanying the book is Heartbeat of the Rez, a compact disc collecting traditional songs compiled by the author, the elders, and KILI, the radio station of the… Read More

Chicago, Center of American Places Columbia College Chicago. 2010. Original publisher's gray paper-covered boards, pictorial frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: illustrated endpapers, frontispieces, 181pp., [3]pp., ca. 115 photographs & plates, poems & songs, captions / descriptions, list poems, list songs, acknowledgements, about author, about essayist, table of contents, colophon. CD with 20 songs in the rear. Very fine copy - as new. Volume: Center Books on American Places.