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Horace Poolaw : photographer of American Indian modernity / Laura E. Smith ; foreword by Linda Poolaw.
Penn Museum Library E99.K5 S58 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Laura E. (Laura Elizabeth), 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poolaw, Horace, 1906-1984.
- Poolaw, Horace.
- Kiowa Indians--Biography.
- Kiowa Indians.
- Indian photographers--Biography.
- Indian photographers.
- Kiowa Indians--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Indians of North America.
- Kiowa Indians--Ethnic identity.
- Indians of North America--Great Plains--Ethnic identity.
- Documentary photography--United States--History--20th century.
- Documentary photography.
- Ethnicity.
- Manners and customs.
- Kiowa Indians--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- History.
- Great Plains.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Photographer of American Indian modernity
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Laura E. Smith unravels the compelling life story of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw (1906-84), one of the first professional Native American photographers. Born on the Kiowa reservation in Anadarko, Oklahoma, Poolaw bought his first camera at the age of fifteen and began taking photos of family, friends, and noted leaders in the Kiowa community, also capturing successive years of powwows and pageants at various fairs, expositions, and other events. Though Poolaw earned some income as a professional photographer, he farmed, raised livestock, and took other jobs to help fund his passion for documenting his community. Smith examines the cultural and artistic significance of Poolaw's life in professional photography from 1925 to 1945 in light of European and modernist discourses on photography, portraiture, the function of art, Native American identity, and American Indian religious and political activism. Rather than through the lens of Native peoples' inevitable extinction or within a discourse of artistic modernism, Smith evaluates Poolaw's photography within art history and Native American history, simultaneously questioning the category of "fine artist" in relation to the creative lives of Native peoples. A tour de force of art and cultural history, Horace Poolaw, Photographer of American Indian Modernity illuminates the life of one of Native America's most gifted, organic artists and documentarians and challenges readers to reevaluate the seamlessness between the creative arts and everyday life through its depiction of one man's lifelong dedication to art and community.
- Contents:
- Homeland
- Family
- History and pageantry
- Warbonnets
- Postcards
- Art
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-188) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803237858
- 0803237855
- OCLC:
- 928607552
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