Keegan's work serves as an excellent example of how American Indians continue to be photographed and marketed as exotic Others. For Keegan, as well as others who make a living photographing and selling images of "Indians," American Indians only appear photogenic when they are wearing ceremonial regalia. The images of Indians taken at the turn of the 20th century that are slapped along Keegan's work in this text convey Southwestern Indians as frozen in time and unchanging. The picture of modern American Indians is a lot more complex than what is presented in Keegan's much blurred and distorted photography.
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