Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus
Title
Benedicte Wrensted : An Idaho Photographer in Focus
View collection at
http://anthropology.si.edu/wrensted/
Description
Benedicte Wrensted (1859-1949) , a native of Denmark , arrived in the United States in 1894 . She was a professional photographer in Pocatello , Idaho from 1895 to 1912 . This online exhibit features Wrensted's photographs of Native Americans . Curator Joanna Cohan Scherer provides historical context for the photographs , notes that Wrensted retouched her negatives , and suggests differences between Wrensted's portraits of Euro-American and Native American subjects .
Creator
Scherer, Joanna Cohan
Subject
Immigrants Indians of North America Women photographers
Place
United States -- Idaho -- Pocatello
Featured Women
Wrensted , Benedicte
Time Period
1880-1899 1900-1909
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Primary Sources
Photographs
Thumbnail caption
Portrait of Benedicte Wrensted taken in Horsens, Denmark, about 1891, when she was 32 years old. Credit: Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of North American Indians Project: Sherwood Collection.
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