Will Wilson (Diné/Bilagáana), b. 1969, Zig Jackson, Citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Professor of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, CIPX NDN MRKT, 2012. Platinum print, 1/20. (26/9272).

Will Wilson (Diné/Bilagáana), b. 1969, Zig Jackson, Citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, Professor of Photography, Savannah College of Art and Design, CIPX NDN MRKT, 2012. Platinum print, 1/20. (26/9272)

The sitter, Zig Jackson, is known for photographing non-Native people taking photographs of American Indians. Here two Native photographers—Jackson and Wilson—level their cameras at each other, playing on Jackson’s theme of photographing the photographer. Together with the background figure, who jokingly conceals his face from Wilson’s camera, they also poke fun at the historical stereotype that all American Indians believed the camera captured the soul and caused the death of the portrait sitter.