Navajo And Photography

Author : James C. Faris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0826317251

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Navajo and Photography by James C. Faris Pdf

This thorough critical examination of photographic practices calls attention to the inability of most photography to communicate the lived experiences of native people or their history. Faris's survey, beginning with the earliest photographs of Navajos in captivity at the Bosque Redondo and including the most recent glossy picture books and calendars, points up the western assumptions that have always governed photographic representation of Navajo people. Drawing on exhaustive archival research to unearth rarely published photographs as well as unpublished photographs by well-known photographers, Faris documents Navajo resistance to the West's view (and viewfinder) and persistent attempts to overcome or dismiss such resistance. He challenges the photographic history of the Navajo people as presented by photographers, historians, and anthropologists, and explores the social and legal conditions that make such photography possible. Confronting many readers' nostalgic expectations, Navajo and Photography will appeal to all those with an interest in the juxtaposition of cultures.

Author : Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942076274

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The North American Indian by Theodore Roosevelt Pdf

Author : Jonathan B. Wittenberg
Publisher : Glitterati Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : 0977753182

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Navajo Nation 1950 by Jonathan B. Wittenberg Pdf

In 1950, Jonathan Wittenberg, student of biochemistry and biophysics, went to live among the Navajo, or Dine, in New Mexico. With a bulky twin-lens reflex camera, Wittenberg was recording a people and their lives from a time that is essentially unrecorded. Navajo Nation 1950 is an incredible historical document that is not only a unique entree to a time and place, but a surprisingly fine art foray by an untrained photographic eye.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cooper Square Pub
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0873585135

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Warriors by Anonim Pdf

During World War II, as the Japanese were breaking American codes as quickly as they could be devised, a small group of Navajo Marines provided their country with its only totally secure cryptography. The photographer has recorded them as they are today, recalling their youth.

Author : Nicole Strathman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780806167060

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Through a Native Lens by Nicole Strathman Pdf

What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American Indians, and his works—along with pictures by other non-Native photographers—came to define the field. Yet beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves started using cameras to record their daily activities and to memorialize tribal members. Through a Native Lens offers a refreshing, new perspective by highlighting the active contributions of North American Indians, both as patrons who commissioned portraits and as photographers who created collections. In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyzes date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and 1940. To account for Native activity both in front of and behind the camera, the author divides her survey into two parts. Part I focuses on Native participants, including such public figures as Sarah Winnemucca and Red Cloud, who fashioned themselves in deliberate ways for their portraits. Part II examines Native professional, semiprofessional, and amateur photographers. Drawing from tribal and state archives, libraries, museums, and individual collections, Through a Native Lens features photographs—including some never before published—that range from formal portraits to casual snapshots. The images represent multiple tribal communities across Native North America, including the Inland Tlingit, Northern Paiute, and Kiowa. Moving beyond studies of Native Americans as photographic subjects, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how indigenous peoples took control of their own images and distinguished themselves as pioneers of photography.

Author : Charles Stewart Doty,Dale Sperry Mudge,Herbert John Benally,John Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : UOM:39015056425393

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Photographing Navajos by Charles Stewart Doty,Dale Sperry Mudge,Herbert John Benally,John Collier Pdf

"In the late 1940s and early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly one thousand photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners. Lost until recently in archives far from the Southwest, most of these photos have never before been published. The authors of this book have assembled a selection of Collier's Navajo photographs showing the changes in post-World War II reservation life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Joel Grimes
Publisher : Westcliffe Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : 1565790057

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Navajo by Joel Grimes Pdf

An overview of contemporary Navajo culture and lifeways features over 150 photographs of Navajo life.

Author : Adriel Heisey,Kenji Kawano
Publisher : Rio Nuevo Pub
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1887896317

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In the Fifth World by Adriel Heisey,Kenji Kawano Pdf

Two exceptional photographers with distinctly different ways of seeing combine their talents to create In the Fifth World: Portrait of the Navajo Nation. Aerial photographer Adriel Heisey takes flight to capture the magnificent landscapes that are home to the Navajo people. His images are paired with those of Japanese photojournalist Kenji Kawano, whose intimate and exuberant portraits celebrate the enduring character and spirit of the Dine"the People." Former Navajo Nation Chairman Peterson Zah contributes a personal foreword.

Author : Jonathan Wittenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Pets
ISBN : UVA:X030255691

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Navajo Nation 1950 by Jonathan Wittenberg Pdf

Today the Navajos comprise the largest group of Native Americans and live on more than 16 million acres. Jonathan Wittenberg has been granted exclusive access into this culture at a pivotal time. The photographs include not just portraiture of individuals, but daily activities, the landscape and special events celebrated.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0816511136

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Secrets from the Center of the World by Anonim Pdf

"My house is the red earth; it could be the center of the world." This is Navajo country, a land of mysterious and delicate beauty. "Stephen Strom's photographs lead you to that place," writes Joy Harjo. "The camera eye becomes a space you can move through into the powerful landscapes that he photographs. The horizon may shift and change all around you, but underneath it is the heart with which we move." Harjo's prose poems accompany these images, interpreting each photograph as a story that evokes the spirit of the Earth. Images and words harmonize to evoke the mysteries of what the Navajo call the center of the world.

Author : Laura Gilpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39076005654731

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The Enduring Navaho by Laura Gilpin Pdf

Author : Christopher Pinney,Nicolas Peterson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-24
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780822384717

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Photography's Other Histories by Christopher Pinney,Nicolas Peterson Pdf

Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. This collection presents a radically different account, describing photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium. Essays firmly grounded in photographic practice—in the actual making of pictures—suggest the extraordinary diversity of nonwestern photography. Richly illustrated with over 100 images, Photography’s Other Histories explores from a variety of regional, cultural, and historical perspectives the role of photography in raising historical consciousness. It includes two first-person pieces by indigenous Australians and one by a Seminole/Muskogee/Dine' artist. Some of the essays analyze representations of colonial subjects—from the limited ways Westerners have depicted Navajos to Japanese photos recording the occupation of Manchuria to the changing "contract" between Aboriginal subjects and photographers. Other essays highlight the visionary quality of much popular photography. Case studies centered in early-twentieth-century Peru and contemporary India, Kenya, and Nigeria chronicle the diverse practices that have flourished in postcolonial societies. Photography’s Other Histories recasts popular photography around the world, as not simply reproducing culture but creating it. Contributors. Michael Aird, Heike Behrend, Jo-Anne Driessens, James Faris, Morris Low, Nicolas Peterson, Christopher Pinney, Roslyn Poignant, Deborah Poole, Stephen Sprague, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Christopher Wright

Author : Laura Gilpin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1968-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 0292720580

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The Enduring Navaho by Laura Gilpin Pdf

"This is a book of superb photographs. Its portraits of individuals and family groups convey a quality of intimacy and serenity; its landscapes spread out the dramatic setting of desert, mountain, and canyon in which these people live; and its scenes of daily activity show many of the details of the way their life has been lived. Among the pictorial records of Navajo country and life, Miss Gilpin's volume deserves a special place. --American Anthropologist "This is not a brand new book, nor a best-seller here today and gone tomorrow. It is record of the Navajo people and their country, a book to keep and to refer to over and over again, always with deep pleasure. Do friends ask you about the Navajos? Send them this book, for it is the heart of the tribe. --The Navajo Times "This book can't be summarized successfully. It needs to be seen and read, and then savoured again and again for a joyous adventure in beauty and spirit. --Santa Fe New Mexican ." . . a touching tribute to The People, to their endurance and their adaptability, to their vanishing way of life and to the new one opening ahead of them. --Sacramento Bee A contemporary of Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Willa Cather, Laura Gilpin was unique among women chroniclers of the Southwest because she worked in photography. She perceived the region as an environment for human activity rather than a place for untouched beauty, and her empathy for her subjects is evident in her work. Even in her eighties--ignoring the physical infirmities of age--she would camp overnight to be near a place she wanted to photograph at the break of day. The vast empty stretches of the southwestern desert did not deter her. She thought nothing ofdriving several hundred miles to make one image of a Navajo ceremony or making a long flight in a small plane to see a particular mountain peak. Gilpin's sixty-year career established her as one of the outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Here are her pictures of the Navaho people and the stories of their lives in the 1950s and 1960s.

Author : Mick Gidley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496216205

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The Grass Shall Grow by Mick Gidley Pdf

The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post (1907–79), who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans. Although Post has been largely forgotten and even in her heyday never achieved the fame of her sister, Farm Security Administration photographer Marion Post Wolcott, Helen Post was a talented photographer who worked on Indian reservations throughout the West and captured images that are both striking and informative. Post produced the pictures for the novelist Oliver La Farge’s nonfiction book As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (1940), among other publications, and her output constitutes a powerful representation of Native American life at that time. Mick Gidley recounts Post’s career, from her coming of age in the turbulent 1930s to her training in Vienna and her work for the U.S. Indian Service, tracking the arc of her professional reputation. He treats her interactions with public figures, including La Farge and editor Edwin Rosskam, and describes her relationships with Native Americans, whether noted craftspeople such as the Sioux quilter Nellie Star Boy Menard, tribal leaders such as Crow superintendent Robert Yellowtail, or ordinary individuals like the people she photographed at work in the fields or laboring for federal projects, at school or in the hospital, cooking or dancing. The images reproduced here are analyzed both for their own sake and in order to understand their connection to broader national concerns, including the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act. The thoroughly researched and accessibly written text represents a serious reappraisal of a neglected artist.

Author : Joel Grimes
Publisher : Westcliffe Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Navajo Indians
ISBN : 0929969707

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Navajo by Joel Grimes Pdf