Antique Photogravure


Title:            The Hunters - Ojibwa

Publisher:    Gravure Engraving Company, Minneapolis, MN, 1908

Plate Size:   18" x 14"

Image Size: 12.5" x 8"

COA:            Copy of COA will be included


ROLAND W. REED

 (American, 1864 - 1934)

 

Roland W. Reed was a photographer working in the American west, who was a largely self-funded in his effort to document the vanishing indigenous peoples he encountered and sought out. Many of his images were staged to offer romanticized depictions of these people as he wanted to see them.


He was a fastidious artist who used photography as his chosen medium to document the ways of eight Indigenous American tribes at the turn of the 20th century. Little is known of this photographer, whose untimely death and lack of resources failed to award him the same recognition as his most notable contemporary, Edward S. Curtis (1868 – 1952).