Christine Turnauer: I Saw More Than I Can Tell

Up from the archives, Christine Turnauer’s mid-’80s portraits of indigenous North American pow wows In 1986, Austrian photographer Christine Turnauer (born 1946) traveled thousands of miles from Northern Alberta to Southern Montana, with a mobile studio tent in tow, to document the traditional dance contests of indigenous North Americans known as pow wows. A pow wow offers an occasion to meet and dance, sing, socialize and celebrate culture; pow wows may vary in length from a one-day event to major occasions lasting a week.Turnauer portrayed the dance contests, their participants and related events in austere black and white, encouraging collaboration in the construction of her portraits and without staging the images herself. --- Hardcover: 88 pages Language: English 10.4 x 0.7 x 12.7 inches