Research Catalog

Title

The enduring Navaho.

Author

Gilpin, Laura

Publication

Austin, University of Texas Press [1968]

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Details

Description

xiii, 263 p. illus. (part col.), map, ports. (part col.); 29 cm.

Summary

A contemporary of Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Willa Cather, Laura Gilpin was unique among women chroniclers of the Southwest because she worked in photography. She perceived the region as an environment for human activity rather than a place for untouched beauty, and her empathy for her subjects is evident in her work. Even in her eighties--ignoring the physical infirmities of age--she would camp overnight to be near a place she wanted to photograph at the break of day. The vast empty stretches of the southwestern desert did not deter her. She thought nothing of driving several hundred miles to make one image of a Navajo ceremony or making a long flight in a small plane to see a particular mountain peak. Gilpin's sixty-year career established her as one of the outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Here are her pictures of the Navaho people and the stories of their lives in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subject

• Navajo Indians
• Navajo Indians > Pictorial works
• Indians of North America > Southwest, New > Pictorial works
• Southwest, New > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 255-256.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1: The Navaho world -- The creation story -- The Dinéh -- Part 2: The way of the people -- Habitation -- The crafts -- Part 3: The coming way -- Tribal government -- The fairs -- Part 4: The enduring way -- Heritage -- Epilogue.

LCCN

^^^68055748^//r84

OCLC

183676

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library