Joanna Cohan Scherer
Biographic Data
| ID | 74817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanna Cohan Scherer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanna Cohan |
| FAMILY NAME | Scherer |
| SIGNATURE | SCHERER J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity (Smith)
This work is a book review considering the title Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity by Laura E. Smith
John Collier Jr. Award for Use of Photography in Anthropology
Thomas D. Blakely, Lifetime Achievement Award 2015
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (Edwards)
This work is a book review considering the title The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Artifact Identification Using Historical Photographs: The Case of Red Cloud's Manikin
A stereograph depicting a manikin in Plains Indian clothing initiated this project. The manikin was made in the likeness of an Oglala Teton Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, whose 1872 visit to Washington was the impetus for making the figure. The same manikin was used again in the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a change of clothing to suggest a more warlike image. This essay explores why Red Cloud was selected as the subject for the manikin and shows how…
The Society for Visual Anthropology's Visual Research Conference: The First Twenty‐Four Years (1985–2008)
The S ociety for V isual A nthropology's V isual R esearch C onference ( VRC ) has been an active presence at the A merican A nthropological A ssociation ( AAA ) annual meetings since the mid‐1980s. Although critical studies and selected histories of visual anthropology have been written, no history has ever included this Special Event of the AAA . The absence of the VRC in past studies has prompted this history that reviews the first 24 years, f…
Picturing Indians: Photographic encounters and tourist fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Visual currencies: Reflections on Native photography
edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie National Museums Scotland, 2009, 128 pages, 40 colour & 20 B&W ISBN: 978 1 905267 12-5 Price $27.50 Reviewed by Joanna Cohan Scherer, Smiths
A Northern Cheyenne Album by Margot Liberty
Visual Anthropology
“Pictures Bring Us Messages” Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation . Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 280 pp., 32 plates, and 13 figures
What Makes Is Laugh
The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America
The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America. Rayna Green with Melanie Fernandez. Indiana University Press, 1999. 213 pp., index, index of individuals, maps. 273 illustrations
Navajo and Photography: A Critical History of the Representation of an American People
Navajo and Photography:. Critical History of the Representation of an American People. James C. Faris. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996
The Flag in American Indian Art. Toby Herbst and Joel Kopp
Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer of Indians
This project resurrects a Pocatello woman who had become merely a shadow in the historical record. Through the study of images, archives, newspapers and published sources, I am attempting to bring back into view the work of this remarkable photographer, Benedicte Wrensted [figure 1]
Picturing Cultures: Historical Photographs in Anthropological Inquiry
Photo Wallahs . 1991. A film by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall. 60 minutes, color
The Hopi photographs: Kate Cory
The Hopi photographs: Kate Cory: 1905‐1912. (1988). Barton Wright. Martin Gaede & Marc Gaede. Alberquerque: University of New Mexico press. 156 pp
Images from the inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter and Pond
Memories in Black and White . 1987. A film by Ara Sahiner
Historical photographs as anthropological documents: A retrospect
This essay reviews recent anthropological literature relating to the analytical use of ethnohistorical photographs. It looks at some of the philosophical issues involved in studying photographs as documents and demonstrates the need to analyze a body of related and contextualized photographs in the triadic relationship of photographer/ subject/viewer
Candidates for General Board Members-at-large
The Public Faces of Sarah Winnemucca
You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Inaccuracies in Photographs of North American Indians
You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Inaccuracies in Photographs of North American Indians
Historical photographs as anthropological documents: A retrospect
This essay reviews recent anthropological literature relating to the analytical use of ethnohistorical photographs. It looks at some of the philosophical issues involved in studying photographs as documents and demonstrates the need to analyze a body of related and contextualized photographs in the triadic relationship of photographer/ subject/viewer
The Public Faces of Sarah Winnemucca
Pictures as Documents: Resources for the Study of North American Ethnohistory
Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity (Smith)
This work is a book review considering the title Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity by Laura E. Smith
You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Inaccuracies in Photographs of North American Indians
Pictures as Documents: Resources for the Study of North American Ethnohistory
The Public Faces of Sarah Winnemucca
Candidates for General Board Members-at-large
Memories in Black and White . 1987. A film by Ara Sahiner
Historical photographs as anthropological documents: A retrospect
This essay reviews recent anthropological literature relating to the analytical use of ethnohistorical photographs. It looks at some of the philosophical issues involved in studying photographs as documents and demonstrates the need to analyze a body of related and contextualized photographs in the triadic relationship of photographer/ subject/viewer
Images from the inside Passage: An Alaskan Portrait by Winter and Pond
Photo Wallahs . 1991. A film by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall. 60 minutes, color
The Hopi photographs: Kate Cory
The Hopi photographs: Kate Cory: 1905‐1912. (1988). Barton Wright. Martin Gaede & Marc Gaede. Alberquerque: University of New Mexico press. 156 pp
Picturing Cultures: Historical Photographs in Anthropological Inquiry
Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer of Indians
This project resurrects a Pocatello woman who had become merely a shadow in the historical record. Through the study of images, archives, newspapers and published sources, I am attempting to bring back into view the work of this remarkable photographer, Benedicte Wrensted [figure 1]
The Flag in American Indian Art. Toby Herbst and Joel Kopp
Navajo and Photography: A Critical History of the Representation of an American People
Navajo and Photography:. Critical History of the Representation of an American People. James C. Faris. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996
The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America
The British Museum Encyclopedia of Native North America. Rayna Green with Melanie Fernandez. Indiana University Press, 1999. 213 pp., index, index of individuals, maps. 273 illustrations
What Makes Is Laugh
Visual Anthropology
“Pictures Bring Us Messages” Sinaakssiiksi aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation . Alison K. Brown and Laura Peers, with members of the Kainai Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 280 pp., 32 plates, and 13 figures
A Northern Cheyenne Album by Margot Liberty
Picturing Indians: Photographic encounters and tourist fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Visual currencies: Reflections on Native photography
edited by Henrietta Lidchi and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie National Museums Scotland, 2009, 128 pages, 40 colour & 20 B&W ISBN: 978 1 905267 12-5 Price $27.50 Reviewed by Joanna Cohan Scherer, Smiths
The Society for Visual Anthropology's Visual Research Conference: The First Twenty‐Four Years (1985–2008)
The S ociety for V isual A nthropology's V isual R esearch C onference ( VRC ) has been an active presence at the A merican A nthropological A ssociation ( AAA ) annual meetings since the mid‐1980s. Although critical studies and selected histories of visual anthropology have been written, no history has ever included this Special Event of the AAA . The absence of the VRC in past studies has prompted this history that reviews the first 24 years, f…
Artifact Identification Using Historical Photographs: The Case of Red Cloud's Manikin
A stereograph depicting a manikin in Plains Indian clothing initiated this project. The manikin was made in the likeness of an Oglala Teton Sioux Chief, Red Cloud, whose 1872 visit to Washington was the impetus for making the figure. The same manikin was used again in the 1876 Centennial Exposition with a change of clothing to suggest a more warlike image. This essay explores why Red Cloud was selected as the subject for the manikin and shows how…
The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (Edwards)
This work is a book review considering the title The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 by Elizabeth Edwards
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Thomas D. Blakely, Lifetime Achievement Award 2015
Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity (Smith)
This work is a book review considering the title Horace Poolaw: Photographer of American Indian Modernity by Laura E. Smith
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