| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

Trading Gazes: Euro-American Women Photographers and Native North Americans, 1880–1940. By Susan Bernardin et al. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003. xvii + 243 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00, cloth; $30.00, paper.)

In Trading Gazes, a group of insightful and subtle essays on four white women photographers of American Indians at the turn of the twentieth century, the authors touch frequently on the theme of "visual dispossession," an insidious invasion by camera that romanticized Native Americans through staged settings and props, or depersonalized them in official documentary photographs (p. 4). To varying degrees, the four women discussed in these essays managed to moderate this photographic colonization. Adventurous, unconventional, often in the process of escaping their own cultural restrictions, they were all gifted amateurs, working without official sanction or pay. Collectively, they created what the authors call a "counter-archive" to much of the Indian photography of the period (p. 4).

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