Written Critique 1 Richard Throssel was born in Marengo, Washington in 1882. Although he was not born into the Crow Indian Tribe, his quarter blood of Canadian Cree heritage helped him get adopted into the Crow Nation. In 1902, Richard moved to Montana to work with his brother Harry on the Crow reservation. He started off working as a clerk in the Indian Service Office but it was not long after his move to the reservation that he bought his first camera and became strongly tied to other contemporary artists that were photographing the Crow Indians. During his time capturing pictures on the reservation, he was influenced by artists such as photographer Edward S. Curtis and painter Joseph Henry Sharp. What set Throssel apart from these two artists was the fact that unlike them, he was adopted into the tribe in 1906. Being adopted into the tribe allowed him to have a more personal view from the inside. Richard continued to live on the reservation until 1911 and during this time he captured over a thousand photographs of the Crow Indian life. The overall purpose of Richard Throssel’s work was to document the life of the Crow Indians. Because Throssel was an adopted member of the tribe he was able to document the life on the reservation in a more personal way. He was both an outsider…show more content… He took the picture from afar in order to not disturb the Native Americans in their natural habitat. Throssel just simply wanted to photograph this ordinary human moment of family and intimacy without disturbing the natural beauty of it. Although black and white photography was the only form of photography used during this time, the black and white colors of this image gives it a more important and historical feel. This imagine was not staged or made to look a certain way, it is natural and simple and thats what i think makes it most
