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Material: Gelatin silver print (large format)
Date: 1908–1910
Measurements: 11 × 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
This large-format portrait of an Apache woman and child by Walter J. Lubkin captures one of the most intimate and enduring images from his landmark 1908 photographic expedition for the United States Reclamation Service. Lubkin — just twenty-four years old at the time — was dispatched to the Superstition Mountains region to document the Salt River watershed drainage systems, traveling on horseback while three companions rode burros, packing a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass photographic plates across some of the most rugged terrain in the American Southwest. His expedition began at Government Well on the Apache Trail, where Apache families were camped in brush shelters, the women offering baskets, bowls, and arrowheads to travelers passing along the trail. Among the thousands of glass plate negatives Lubkin produced throughout his career documenting Roosevelt Dam's construction, the farms and ranches of the Salt River Valley, and the daily lives of Apache workmen and their families, his portraits of Apache women and children stand as some of the most humanizing and historically significant — an unposed record of Apache life at a moment of profound cultural transition. 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
This large-format portrait of an Apache woman and child by Walter J. Lubkin captures one of the most intimate and enduring images from his landmark 1908 photographic expedition for the United States Reclamation Service. Lubkin — just twenty-four years old at the time — was dispatched to the Superstition Mountains region to document the Salt River watershed drainage systems, traveling on horseback while three companions rode burros, packing a large stationary glass plate camera, tripod, and fragile glass photographic plates across some of the most rugged terrain in the American Southwest. His expedition began at Government Well on the Apache Trail, where Apache families were camped in brush shelters, the women offering baskets, bowls, and arrowheads to travelers passing along the trail. Among the thousands of glass plate negatives Lubkin produced throughout his career documenting Roosevelt Dam's construction, the farms and ranches of the Salt River Valley, and the daily lives of Apache workmen and their families, his portraits of Apache women and children stand as some of the most humanizing and historically significant — an unposed record of Apache life at a moment of profound cultural transition. From a private collection in Utah.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand