So THIS is what they juse to make billboard sized prints!
Posted on 11/16/2011 1:18:10 PM PST by Utah Binger
Photographs by John K. Hillers from the John Wesley Powell Expedition of 1872
Mt. Carmel, UTAH – October 12, 2011 - From October 15, 2011 through December 31, 2011, the Thunderbird Foundation for the Arts will present Utah Tribes: “Myself in the Water” – Photographs by John K. Hillers from the John Wesley Powell Expedition of 1872. This is only the second large-scale exhibition of these rare, original prints since the Foundation obtained them in 1999.
Photographer John (Jack) K. Hillers (1843-1925) made the 116 images of the Utah Tribes Exhibit while he was working with the legendary U.S. explorer and scientist John Wesley Powell during the federally funded survey of the Colorado Plateau in 1872-1875. Powell was not only interested in the geology of the Colorado River region, but also in the native populations who dwelt in the environs of the plateaus.
In the fall of 1872 Powell set out to photograph the Kaibab Paiutes, who at the time were settled in their winter camp at the mouth of Kanab Canyon, not far from the Mormon settlement of Kanab. Earlier attempts to photograph the Paiutes had been unsuccessful because the Indians feared the camera. But now, accompanied by southern Utah Mormon leader Jacob Hamblin, the so-called “buckskin apostle” to the Indians, Powell met with the leader of the Kaibab Paiute band, Chuarumpeak. With Hamblin’s reassurance, the Paiutes were at last convinced the camera would do them no harm, and they gave Hillers the Indian name of “Myself in the Water,” symbolic of his camera being able to capture their own reflections in the water in his magic wooden box.
Thus began a long association of mutual trust between Powell and the Paiutes, which freely opened access to Hillers’ cameras. Many of the pictures in the Utah Tribes Exhibit are the result.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a special reproduction portfolio of 8 simulated photogravures, available for purchase through the Thunderbird Foundation. A show description and preview of close-up detail images from Utah Tribes: “Myself in the Water” is featured on the Foundation website.
Haunted by TOURISTS!!
Screw the gate; buy a GUN!
The dusty track leading outta BW, heading east, north of the pond, is quite an interesting trip thru strange land forms!
There goes the neighborhood!
So THIS is what they juse to make billboard sized prints!
Wall mural....
thanks for the web link.
I put an Indian Country map on the wall, viewable at all times. It shows all the roads we’ve traveled over the various trips there. I then stuck pins at all the various national parks, monuments etc. Although we intend to take at least a month on our next trip, there are 28 pins and they don’t include numerous places not federal.
The problem, as yet unresolved, is how to limit the places we absolutely want to see or to see again. There are several pieces of new road as well. We may have to just move out there to get it out of our system.
The San Juan river passes by the Butler Wash Petroglyph Site several miles downstream from Sand Island.
Here are the large petroglyphs there. They are to me space men, the aliens seen and recorded in stone. they are speaking to the viewer
I know JUST bhow you feel.
When I first started out that way, the entire town of Cisco, UT could have been purchased for $65,000.
Numbers 1 & 2 are quite stunning!
Just saw this, love ya Binger!
Thanks. You back in SD?
Not yet, I’m in San Diego with my best friend, Michelle, for a few days. I’m still out in CA for about 3 more weeks.
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