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Navajo and photography : a critical history of the representation of an American people /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Faris, James C.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1996]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Navajo Indians > Pictorial works.
Photography in ethnology > Southwest, New > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The gaze of Western Humanism : photography as enterprise : Navajo, photography, anthropology, Navajo history
  • The registers of photography of Navajo : method as political critique : valences in the photography of Navajo
  • A Historical sketch of nineteenth-century photography of Navajo : the first photographers : photographers, 1870-1900
  • The vanishing race: Edward S. Curtis
  • 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
  • The endearing Navajo: Laura Gilpin
  • Selling Navajo images: contemporary picture books and photographic modernism
  • Navajo photographers
  • Conclusions.