For a Love of His People
Subtitle: The Photography of Horace Poolaw
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780300197457
Subjects: Indians of north america, great plains; Indians of north america, pictorial works; Documentary photography; Photographers, biography; Indians of north america, biography; United states, pictorial works; Canada, pictorial works; United states, social life and customs; Canada, social life and customs
Description: "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"--