For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw / Nancy Marie Mithlo, general editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mithlo, Nancy Marie, editor.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poolaw, Horace, 1906-1984.

Indians of North America--Great Plains--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Indians of North America.

Kiowa Indians--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Kiowa Indians.

Indian photographers.

Documentary photography.

Manners and customs.

History.

Great Plains--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.

Great Plains.

Documentary photography--United States--Exhibitions.

Poolaw, Horace, 1906-1984--Exhibitions.

Poolaw, Horace.

Indian photographers--Biography.

Kiowa Indians--Biography.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Museum of the American Indian, [2014]

Summary:

"Horace Poolaw (Kiowa, 1906-84) was born during a time of great change for his American Indian people as they balanced age-old traditions with the influences of mainstream America. A rare American Indian photographer who documented Indian subjects, Poolaw began making a visual history in the mid-1920s and continued for the next fifty years. When he sold his photos, he often stamped the reverse: 'A Poolaw Photo, Pictures by an Indian, Horace M. Poolaw, Anadarko, Okla.' Not simply by 'an Indian,' but a Kiowa man strongly rooted in his multi-tribal community, Poolaw's work celebrates his subjects' place in American life and preserves an insider's perspective on a world few outsiders are familiar with--the Native America of the southern plains during the mid-twentieth century. [This book] is based on the Poolaw Photography Project, a research initiative established by Poolaw's daughter Linda in 1989 at Stanford University and carried on by Native scholars Nancy Marie Mithlo (Chiricahua Apache) and Tom Jones (Ho-Chunk) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Kevin Gover and Tim Johnson

Preface: Family Pictures/Family Stories / Martha Sandweiss

Introduction: The Transcendence of the Everyday / John Haworth

Insider Knowledge / Tom Jones

"An Age of Pictures More than Words" : Theorizing Early American Indian Photography / Ned Blackhawk

Breaking the Bounds of Documentation / David Grant Noble

For a Love of His People / Linda Poolaw

Reflections / Richard Ray Whitman

Why Horace Poolaw's Indians Won't Vanish / David W. Penney

Horace Poolaw : "Pictures by an Indian" / Nancy Marie Mithlo

Fancy / John Poolaw

Planes, Flags, and Automobiles : Horace Poolaw's American Legacy / Cheryl Finley

Beaded Buckskins and Bad-Girl Bobs : Kiowa Female Identity, Industry, and Activism in Horace Poolaw's Portraits / Laura Smith

Justin Poolaw Comes to Visit [+ untitled reflections] / Vanessa Jennings

Afterword

This is My Family / Dane Poolaw

Appendix A: Horace Poolaw Biography / Laura Smith

Appendix B: Kiowa names and their phonetic spellings

Checklist

Contributors.

Notes:

"This volume [is] a companion piece to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) exhibition ... ; [it] represents the only major publication of Horace Poolaw's work and celebrates the first retrospective exhibition of his photographs in almost twenty-five years"--Foreword.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition For a Love of His People: the Photography of Horace Poolaw, opening at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, on August 9, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300197457

0300197454

OCLC:

876370643