Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934), Charging Thunder (Lakota), ca. 1898. Platinum print. National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. (69.236.63)
Gertrude Käsebier’s desire to photograph “a real raw Indian” is obscured by her decision to print in platinum. Her idealized portrait, softened by the platinum process, smooths over difficult, violent, and unresolved issues between the Lakota and the United States.
