[Rarebooks] F/S Inscribed John Willis Views From The Reservation

[Garry R Austin]

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Willis, John. Views From the Reservation, with an essay by Kent Newborn 
and contributions from the Oglala Lakota people. (Chicago: Center for 
American Places, 2010).
First edition; quarto; pp; 181, (iii), colophon; profusely illustrated 
with seventy-nine black and white photographs, twenty-nine vintage sepia 
photographs, & nine colored photographs, totaling one hundred seventeen 
plates; pictorial boards in a pictorial dust jacket, with matching 
images, pictorial endpapers; near fine in a near fine jacket; this copy 
warmly inscribed on the verso of the front free endpaper and dated 2010. 
CD, "Heartbeat Of The Rez" is present inside rear cover.

"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. 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 reservation." Amazon
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