Native nations : journeys in American photography / edited and introduced by Jane Alison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alison, Jane.

Barbican Art Gallery.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Barbican Art Gallery--Exhibitions.

Barbican Art Gallery.

Indians of North America--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Exhibitions.

Photography--United States--Exhibitions.

Photography.

Exhibitions.

United States.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Barbican Art Gallery in association with Booth-Flibborn Editions : Internos Books [distributor], [1998]

Summary:

Native Nations accompanies the exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, which is a visually rich yet critical exploration of the photographic representation of Native North Americans before the first world war and the advent of Modernism. The themes covered include the development of photography, the emergence of anthropology as a discipline, and the historical period that witnessed the white colonisation of the West, as well as the final stages of Indian revolt, and the government policy of assimilation. This book challenges the stereotypical view of the 'Red Indian' that we know from popular culture and includes photographic Journeys by six authors -- three Native and three non-Native.

Contents:

They're taking our children / George Horse Capture

When is a photograph worth a thousand words? / Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

The occupation of indigenous space as 'photograph' / Jolene Rickard

Invaded spaces

Theatre of diplomacy

The American dream

Desirable objects

Curious Curtis

A hundred years in the life of American Indian photographers / Mick Gidley

'A portion of the promises made to us have not been fulfilled': Little Crow and the Sioux Revolt / Paula Richardson Fleming

The resonance of anthropology / Elizabeth Edwards

Wo'wapi Waśte- acting the part: image makers of the North American Indian / Colin Taylor

The pen and the gaze: narratives of the Southwest at the turn of the 19th century / Benedetti Cestelli Guidi

Indigenous photographies: a space for indigenous realities / Theresa Harlan

Jennie Ross Cobb

Richard Throssel

Horace Poolaw

Lee Marmon

Dugan Aguilar

Shelley Niro

Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie

Larry McNeil

Pamela Shields

Jolene Rickard.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery from Sept. 10, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (page 316).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1861540736

OCLC:

40392540