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A Russian American photographer in Tlingit country : Vincent Soboleff in Alaska / Sergei Kan.
- Title
- A Russian American photographer in Tlingit country : Vincent Soboleff in Alaska / Sergei Kan.
- Author
- Kan, Sergei.
- Publication
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | TR140.S634 K36 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Soboleff, Vincent, 1882-1950.
- Description
- ix, 272 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.
- Summary
- This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photographs of Vincent Soboleff, an amateur Russian American photographer whose community included Tlingit Indians from a nearby village as well as Russian Americans, so-called Creoles, who worked in a local fertilizer factory. Using a Kodak camera, Soboleff, the son of a Russian Orthodox priest, documented the life of this multiethnic parish at work and at play until 1920. Despite their significance, few of Soboleff?s photographs have been published since their discovery in 1950. Anthropologist Sergei Kan rectifies that oversight in A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country, which brings together more than 100 of Soboleff?s striking black-and-white images.
- Series Statement
- Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West
- Uniform Title
- Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780806142906 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0806142901 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012020813
- OCLC
- 794838413
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library