Navajo and photography : a critical history of the representation of an American people / James C. Faris.
| Author/creator | Faris, James C. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1996. |
| Description | xv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| 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. |
| LCCN | 95041781 |
| ISBN | 0826317251 (cl.) |