Navajo and photography : a critical history of the representation of an American people /
James C. Faris.
- 1st ed.
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1996.
- xv, 392 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-385) and index.
1. The Gaze of Western Humanism -- 2. The Registers of Photography of Navajo -- 3. A Historical Sketch of Nineteenth-Century Photography of Navajo -- 4. The Vanishing Race: Edward S. Curtis -- 5. Photography of Navajo to Mid-Century: Saturated Fields of Visibility -- 6. The Endearing Navajo: Laura Gilpin -- 7. Selling Navajo Images: Contemporary Picture Books and Photographic Modernism -- 8. Navajo Photographers -- 9. Conclusions -- Chart 1. List of Photographers of Navajo -- Chart 2. List of Color Slide Companies/Postal Card Companies/Stock Companies of Navajo Images -- Chart 3. List of Navajo Photographers.
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Navajo Indians--Pictorial works Photography in ethnology--History--Southwest New