{"id":1118,"date":"2009-11-08T18:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2009-11-08T18:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:59:12","slug":"the-photography-of-richard-throssel-dgm-module-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/11\/08\/the-photography-of-richard-throssel-dgm-module-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Photography of Richard Throssel (DGM Module 3-3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.virginia.edu\/etd\/masters\/ArtsSci\/English\/2002\/Daniels\/curtis\/throssel\/professional.html\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.lib.virginia.edu\/etd\/masters\/ArtsSci\/English\/2002\/Daniels\/curtis\/throssel\/professional.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whereas Edward Curtis was a White man photographing Indians, Richard Throssel was a Crow Indian, hired by the Indian Service (of the US Gov&#8217;t) from 1909 to 1911 to depict everyday life on the Crow Reserve. While Throssel&#8217;s photographs are also coloured by the late-Romantic notion of the &#8220;noble Indian&#8221;, his insider&#8217;s perspective led to many photographs that depict a somewhat truer reality: Indians who weren&#8217;t living in an idealized past, but as contemporary to the rest of America at the beginning of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>On the page linked above, Valerie Daniels has posted a representative selection of photographs from Throssel&#8217;s employment by the Indian Service and his later private venture, Throssel Photocraft Co., along with a brief biography. A number of these photos, such as <em>Showing the Better Class of Indian Home<\/em> (1910) and <em>Interior of the Best Kitchen on the Crow Reservation<\/em> (1910) had been produced for use in educational pamphlets on &#8220;Indian Health&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.lib.virginia.edu\/etd\/masters\/ArtsSci\/English\/2002\/Daniels\/curtis\/throssel\/professional.html Whereas Edward Curtis was a White man photographing Indians, Richard Throssel was a Crow Indian, hired by the Indian Service (of the US Gov&#8217;t) from 1909 to 1911 to depict everyday life on the Crow Reserve. While Throssel&#8217;s photographs are also coloured by the late-Romantic notion of the &#8220;noble Indian&#8221;, his insider&#8217;s perspective led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[233,1814,682,6312,5740,33,6313],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-3","tag-education","tag-health","tag-indian","tag-noble","tag-photographs","tag-photography","tag-throssel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}