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For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw

Title: For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw / Nancy Marie Mithlo, general editor.
Publication: Washington, DC : National Museum of the American Indian, [2014]

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184 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

"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"--

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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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

MFX (Poolaw) 15-2906

ISBN

9780300197457 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
0300197454 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2014007060

OCLC

876370643

Title

For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw / Nancy Marie Mithlo, general editor.

Publisher

Washington, DC : National Museum of the American Indian, [2014]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mithlo, Nancy Marie, editor.

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Research Call Number

MFX (Poolaw) 15-2906

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