The Tlingit Encounter with Photography

by Sharon Bohn Gmelch

Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, shortly after the invention of photography, the Tlingit of southeastern Alaska encountered early Russian and American survey teams, ethnographic investigators, studio photographers, tourists, and resident amateur and commercial photographers. Why were the Tlingit photographed and how were their images disseminated? How were they portrayed through photography? How active were the Tlingit in shaping the images...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934536105
• ISBN13: 9781934536100
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publication
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.6" x 11.2"