For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw /
Mithlo, Nancy Marie,editor.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
"Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: 'A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.' Not simply by 'an Indian,' but a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw's work celebrates his subjects' place in American life and preserves an insider's perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with--the Native America of the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century. [This book] is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison"--
"This volume [is] a companion piece to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) exhibition ... ; [it] represents the only major publication of Horace Poolaw's work and celebrates the first retrospective exhibition of his photographs in almost twenty-five years"--Foreword.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition For a Love of His People: the Photography of Horace Poolaw, opening at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, on August 9, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Kevin Gover and Tim Johnson -- Preface: Family Pictures/Family Stories / Martha Sandweiss -- Introduction: The Transcendence of the Everyday / John Haworth -- Insider Knowledge / Tom Jones -- "An Age of Pictures More than Words" : Theorizing Early American Indian Photography / Ned Blackhawk -- Breaking the Bounds of Documentation / David Grant Noble -- For a Love of His People / Linda Poolaw -- Reflections / Richard Ray Whitman -- Why Horace Poolaw's Indians Won't Vanish / David W. Penney -- Horace Poolaw : "Pictures by an Indian" / Nancy Marie Mithlo -- Fancy / John Poolaw -- Planes, Flags, and Automobiles : Horace Poolaw's American Legacy / Cheryl Finley -- Beaded Buckskins and Bad-Girl Bobs : Kiowa Female Identity, Industry, and Activism in Horace Poolaw's Portraits / Laura Smith -- Justin Poolaw Comes to Visit [+ untitled reflections] / Vanessa Jennings -- Afterword -- This is My Family / Dane Poolaw -- Appendix A: Horace Poolaw Biography / Laura Smith -- Appendix B: Kiowa names and their phonetic spellings -- Checklist -- Contributors.
"Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: 'A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.' Not simply by 'an Indian,' but a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw's work celebrates his subjects' place in American life and preserves an insider's perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with--the Native America of the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century. [This book] is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison"--
Poolaw, Horace, 1906-1984
Indians of North America
Kiowa Indians
Documentary photography
Indian photographers
Kiowa Indians