Strong hearts : native American visions and voices / [Peggy Roalf, editor].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roalf, Peggy

Series:

Aperture, 0003-6420 ; no. 139

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Portraits.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Pictorial works.

Indian art--Pictorial works.

Indian art.

Indigenous peoples--North America--Pictorial works.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--North America--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Photography, Artistic.

art photography.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

North America.

Genre:

Pictorial works

Portraits

Photography, Artistic.

Physical Description:

119 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Aperture, ©1995.

Summary:

"In Strong Hearts, popular visions of American Indians are challenged by artists and writers for whom self-representation is often as much a political as an artistic statement. For example: the darkly emotional scenes staged by Carm Little Turtle; Larry McNeil's metaphorical images of eagle feathers; Zig Jackson's satirical pictures of tourists photographing Indians; Maggie Steber's intimate portrayal of the Wildcat family; images of joy and of pain captured by the children in the "Shooting Back from the Reservation" project; and Jeffrey Thomas's close-up portraits of traditional powwow dancers. Three distinguished authors write about the struggle to overturn stereotyped perceptions of Native Americans. Paul Chaat Smith, cultural critic and writer, compares the nineteenth-century arms race that nearly wiped out his Comanche ancestors to the ways in which the camera has been used to form unyielding perceptions of Native people. Theresa Harlan, curator at the C.N. Gorman Museum, tells how constructed mythologies about Native people threaten not only their cultures but their very survival. Photographer and educator Jolene Rickard regards contemporary Native image-making as "documents of our sovereignty, both politically and spiritually." In their essays, all three show how the photographers in Strong Hearts use the camera to represent Native American people today. One hundred twenty-five images by thirty-four Native American photographers are complemented by poetry that echoes ancient story-telling traditions. From an anonymous Swampy Cree poem capturing the forces of Nature to Luci Tapahonso's narrative "Raisin Eyes"--a humorous, clear-eyed picture of modern love--this collection reveals enduring traditions central to Native American literature." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Ghost in the machine / Paul Chaat Smith

The photography of Horace Poolaw / N. Scott Momaday

Creating a visual history : a question of ownership / Theresa Harlan

Social identity : a view from within Zig Jackson

I've always wanted to be an American Indian / James Luna

Shooting back from the reservation

Sovereignty : a line in the sand / Jolene Rickard

An essay on rocks / Leslie Marmon Silko

Carry / Linda Hogan

Raisin eyes / Luci Taphonso

The feather series / Larry McNeil

Kake is the place of no rest, it is / Robert Davis

The Tlingit national anthem retold / Robert Willard, Jr.

The land is our mother / Nancy Ackerman

Plea to those who matter / James Welch

The original people / Blackfeet tribal elders

Strong hearts / Jeffrey M. Thomas

In 1864 / Luci Tapahonso.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

089381637X

9780893816377

0893816531

9780893816537

OCLC:

55989432

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