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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. |