Navajo and photography a critical history of the representation of an American people / James C. Faris.
| Author/creator | Faris, James C. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, |
| Description | xv, 392 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-385) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 95041781 |
| ISBN | 0826317251 (cl.) |