Bigfork photographer’s image included in anthology
, 2022-12-20 10:56:00,
Last month, filmmaker Ken Burns published “Our America: A Photographic History,” a hardcover volume of photographs taken in the United States from 1839 to the present.
Artists include major figures such as Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Edward Curtis, Sally Mann, and more.
Among the images, you’ll find a portrait called “Tommy in his car” by photographer Lauren Grabelle. Her subject is Tommy Christian (Assiniboine Sioux), dressed shortly after winning a 1996 powwow in Connecticut.
Christian became tribal president of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes. Meanwhile, Grabelle has moved west to Bigfork and has continued to search for the middle of it. His work is now on view at the Missoula Museum of Art as part of “Omnipresent: Photographs from the MAM Collection”.
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Grabelle answered questions about the photograph via email.
Q: What is the story behind this photograph?
A: In 1996, he lived just a few miles from the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, where the Schemitzun Powwow, the largest powwow in the country at the time, was taking place.
It was my first powwow and it was the most visual and auditory…
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