Title: For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw /
Authors: Mithlo, Nancy Marie; Mithlo, Nancy Marie,; National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Year: 2014
Subjects: Poolaw, Horace, Exhibitions.; Indians of North America Great Plains History Pictorial works Exhibitions.; Kiowa Indians History Pictorial works Exhibitions.; Documentary photography United States Exhibitions.; Indian photographers Biography.; Kiowa Indians Biography.; PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / Monographs.; HISTORY / Native American.; PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries.; Great Plains Social life and customs Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Abstract: "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"--
Contents: 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.