Reflections in the Water: An Exploration of the Various Uses of C. R. Savage’s 1875 Photograph of the Mass Baptism of the Shivwit

JAMES R. SWENSEN is an associate professor of art history and the history of photography at Brigham Young University. His research interests include documentary photography and the art and photography of the American West. He is the author of Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photography (University of Oklahoma Press, 2015) and In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange’s Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953–1954 (forthcoming, University of Utah Press).