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Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography

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About the Editors

Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photography

Edited by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie and Veronica Passalacqua

96 pages (8 x 10), with 89 color and b&w photographs
Trade Paper, ISBN: 978-1-59714-057-7, $27.95

Published in collaboration with the C. N. Gorman Museum

Over 100 years of indigenous art photography

Whether probing personal identity or exploring the world around them, twenty-six indigenous photographers present images that are fresh, provocative, iconoclastic, surprising, and—in the broadest and deepest meaning of the word—authentic. Their works range from the artful studio portraits of Benjamin A. Haldane (Tsimshian), who photographed Native communities throughout southeast Alaska and British Columbia in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to the cutting-edge digital photographs of contemporary Native artists.

The “vision makers” presented here have, in the words of editor Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, “taken on the honorable and weighty responsibility of continuance”—the responsibility of the artist to speak from the heart with passion and integrity, the responsibility of the photographer to make us see the world afresh.

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie

Veronica Passalacqua

About the Editors:

Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muskogee/Diné) says photography and video are her primary languages. She has been a recipient of the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, a Chancellor’s Fellowship at UC Irvine, and the First Peoples Community Artist Award, and she was a Rockefeller artist in residence. She is the director of the C. N. Gorman Museum and an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies, both at UC Davis.

Veronica Passalacqua has been a writer, curator, and scholar of Native North American art for the past fifteen years. She is currently a curator at the C. N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and is completing her doctorate in museum studies from Oxford University.

 
 

Exhibit:

Burke Museum, May 3­–May 28, 2007

 

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