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Title
The Blackfoot
Artist
Roland C Reed
Medium
Photograph - Photograph On Photo Paper
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Roland W. Reed was an American photographer who was born in 1864 in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin. His parents were farm people of Scottish ancestry. He grew up in a log cabin near the old Indian trail that led from Lake Poygan to Fond du Lac, and the hero of his boyhood days was an Indian named Thundercloud—the chief of a band of Menominies who camped on the opposite side of the lake.
Reed's handwritten notes (which have survived these many years packed with his glass-plate negatives) reveal that he remained keenly interested in Indians throughout his early life, and that at the age of eighteen he headed west—where he first attempted to record their vanishing faces in crayon and pencil. It was the beginning of a lifelong odyssey that would see him journey back and forth across this continent—always in search of Indian subjects.
Reed's early sketches have not been found and were probably destroyed. In 1893, he met Daniel Dutro, a professional photographer in Havre, Montana. Reed recalled: "I knew that if I could master this seemingly easy way of making pictures (photography), I would have no trouble in getting all the Indian pictures I wanted." Dutro and Reed subsequently worked together for a few years doing portrait photography and also supplying Indian photographs to the news department of the Great Northern Railroad.
But Reed's adventuresome spirit could not be long suppressed, and in 1897 he signed on with Associated Press to photograph the Klondike gold rush in Alaska. A few years later he was doing studio work in Fort Benton and, subsequently, Great Falls, Montana. He then headed east to Minnesota where he set up studios at Bemidji and Ortonville. Although records indicate that his studio work was highly successful and he enjoyed a loyal clientele, he worked primarily for one reason: to finance his field work among the Indians.
Gaining the Indians' confidence must surely be one of his major accomplishments. In a personal letter, Reed once explained something of how he obtained his pictures:
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