Out of the Shadows: Benedicte Wrensted
Clip: Season 2 Episode 6 | 10mVideo has Closed Captions
Learn more about the life and work of photographer Benedicte Wrensted.
Learn more about Danish photographer Benedicte Wrensted, who came to Pocatello, Idaho in 1895. In addition to documenting life in the city, Wrensted also took stunning photographs of Shoshone-Bannock tribal members. Her photos languished unattributed until Smithsonian anthropologist Joanna Scherer went on a quest to find their maker and identify as many subjects in the images as possible.
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Major funding for Idaho Experience provided by the James and Barbara Cimino Foundation, Anne Voillequé and Louise Nelson, Judy and Steve Meyer. Additional funding by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson...
Out of the Shadows: Benedicte Wrensted
Clip: Season 2 Episode 6 | 10mVideo has Closed Captions
Learn more about Danish photographer Benedicte Wrensted, who came to Pocatello, Idaho in 1895. In addition to documenting life in the city, Wrensted also took stunning photographs of Shoshone-Bannock tribal members. Her photos languished unattributed until Smithsonian anthropologist Joanna Scherer went on a quest to find their maker and identify as many subjects in the images as possible.
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Women who photographed Native Americans in Idaho in the late 1800s. (30s)
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Idaho Experience is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV
Major funding for Idaho Experience provided by the James and Barbara Cimino Foundation, Anne Voillequé and Louise Nelson, Judy and Steve Meyer. Additional funding by the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson...