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Material: Gelatin silver print (large format)
Date: 1908–1910
Measurements: 11 × 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Large-format portrait of an Apache man by Walter J. Lubkin, staff photographer for the United States Reclamation Service. Lubkin was dispatched to the region near Weaver's Needle in 1908 to document the drainage systems of the Salt River watershed. Traveling on horseback through rugged terrain with a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass plates, his expedition began at Government Well on the Apache Trail, where his earliest photographs captured Apache road workers and their families camped in brush shelters along the trail.
Lubkin's photographs of Apache men, women, and children at work and at home near Roosevelt, Government Well, and surrounding sites represent historically significant ethnographic images of Apache daily life during a period of profound cultural transition. His 1908 expedition into the western Superstition Mountains is recognized as one of the earliest known photographic ventures into this remote landscape. From a private collection in Utah.
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Material: Gelatin silver print (large format)
Date: 1908–1910
Measurements: 11 × 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
Large-format portrait of an Apache man by Walter J. Lubkin, staff photographer for the United States Reclamation Service. Lubkin was dispatched to the region near Weaver's Needle in 1908 to document the drainage systems of the Salt River watershed. Traveling on horseback through rugged terrain with a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass plates, his expedition began at Government Well on the Apache Trail, where his earliest photographs captured Apache road workers and their families camped in brush shelters along the trail.
Lubkin's photographs of Apache men, women, and children at work and at home near Roosevelt, Government Well, and surrounding sites represent historically significant ethnographic images of Apache daily life during a period of profound cultural transition. His 1908 expedition into the western Superstition Mountains is recognized as one of the earliest known photographic ventures into this remote landscape. From a private collection in Utah.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand