- Title
For a love of his people the photography of Horace Poolaw / Nancy Marie Mithlo, general editor.
- Other Title
American Progress (reproduction)
- Description
184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Category
Books and Serials
- Subject
Poolaw, Horace,--1906-1984--Exhibitions.
Indians of North America--Great Plains--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
Kiowa Indians--History--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
Documentary photography--United States--Exhibitions.
Indian photographers--Biography.
Kiowa Indians--Biography.
Great Plains--Social life and customs--20th century--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Other Author
Mithlo, Nancy Marie, editor.
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Autry Museum of the American West. Collection reproduction.
- Note
”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 collection reproduction from Autry Museum of the American West (page 67: 92.126.1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
”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.
- Call Number
E 78 .G73 F67 2014