Description: young woman holding vase at left, a pitcher sitting on edge of fountain, with water flowing from two spouts
Label Text: Pastor, doctor, and amateur photographer, Buschman staged this photograph of a young native woman standing by a public water basin. Dressed in western-style clothes and shoes, she holds up an antique decorated ceramic vase, while a terracotta pitcher is left on the stone ledge of the fountain. Other Buschman photographs from the Mexican countryside employ a more ethnographic approach, documenting real village life where women are dressed in their traditional working clothes and fetch water with imported metal buckets. Here, however, as in the painting by Millet nearby, this type of idealized imagery perpetuated a distorted view of women, either by romanticizing their role or belittling their positions and contributions in society.
Tags: figures; women; roads; sidewalks; still lifes Link to share this object record: https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=AC+1998.119 |