Photographer, Walter McClintock, took beautiful photos of the Blackfoot community of Northwestern Montana over a period of 20 years.
McClintock believed that Indian communities were undergoing swift, dramatic transformations that might obliterate their traditional culture. He sought to create a record of a life-way that might disappear. He wrote books, mounted photographic exhibitions, and delivered numerous public lectures about the Blackfoot.’
More photos of tipis from the Beinecke Collection at HOW TO BE A RETRONAUT
Those are incredible paintings. Yes, I know he used photographs as templates, but they are hand painted from memory, or imagination, some time after the fact... possibly months or years.
ReplyDeleteNone the less, they’re beautiful, and are probably pretty accurate in the coloration of the important details. Excellent find.