Navajo and photography
Subtitle: a critical history of the representation of an American people
By: James C. Faris.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Navajo Indians -- Pictorial works.; Photography in ethnology -- Southwest, New -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: The gaze of Western Humanism : photography as enterprise : Navajo, photography, anthropology, Navajo history; title: The registers of photography of Navajo : method as political critique : valences in the photography of Navajo; title: A Historical sketch of nineteenth-century photography of Navajo : the first photographers : photographers, 1870-1900; title: The vanishing race: Edward S. Curtis; title: Photography of Navajo to mid-century: saturated fields of visibility : the settling of Tropes: the first two decades : photography of Navajo after 1920 : bureaucrats, postal cards, and color slides; title: The endearing Navajo: Laura Gilpin; title: Selling Navajo images: contemporary picture books and photographic modernism; title: Navajo photographers; title: Conclusions.