TY - BOOK AU - Faris James C TI - Navajo and photography: a critical history of the representation of an American people SN - 0826317251 AV - E99.N3 PY - 1996/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Navajo Indians KW - Pictorial works KW - Photography in ethnology KW - Southwest New KW - History N1 - 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 ER -