Negotiating Difference

Throughout the twentieth century, artists have provided images of New Mexico for tourists and parodied the relationships between tourists and locals. John Sloan presents the haggling between a tourist and a Pueblo potter as if it were Adam and Eve debating whether to eat the apple in the Garden of Eden. Zig Jackson updates the scene with his sarcastic investigation Indian Photographing Tourist Photographing Indian. Bill Gilbert summarizes the tourism with his analysis of how money changes hands.