Visual Currencies
Reflections on Native Photography
Published on 28. October 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-905267-12-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is an edited collection of essays coming out of sessions held at the Native American Art Studies Association Conference, Phoenix, 2005. The seven contributors focus on the far-reaching influences of photography on Native American communities, and the possibilities that it currently presents. The essays explore the values, or currencies, attributed to photographers by practitioners and institutions, be these Native artists, or museums, archives and anthropologists. The book includes over 60 photographs by named indigenous Native American photographers.
Reviews / Votes
' ... The value of the book is that there is a plethora of personal anecdotes, reminiscences and reflections, the Native American authors have a distinct input ... the book is very much a modern book, written in a modern style by modern people - academic and professional Native American.' The Turtle Islander - International North American Indian AssociationMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Illustrations
40 colour and 20 b&w illus
Dimensions
Height: 255 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-905267-12-5 (9781905267125)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Henrietta Lidchi previous worked at the British Museum in the Department of Ethnography, primarily on the North American collections, specialising in the Southwest. She is currently Keeper of the Department of World Cultures at National Museums Scotland. Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie was born into the Bear and Raccoon Clans of the Seminole and Muskogee Nations, and born for the Tsinajinnie Clan of the Dine Nation. She claims photography and video as her primary languages. She is currently Director of the C. N. Gorman Museum at University of California Davis and Assistant Professor in the Department of Native American Studies at University of California Davis.
Content
Dragon fly's sweet dreams, America's nightmares by Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muskogee/Dine), CN Gorman Museum, University of California-Davis; Finding Sovereignty through Relocation: Considering Photographic Consumption by Veronica Passalacqua, CN Gorman Musuem, University of California-Davis; Memories of Glass and Fire: B. A. Haldane, a 19th Century Tsimshian Photographer by Mique'l Askren (Tsimshian), University of British Columbia Museums and the Creation of Visual Memories by Henrietta Lidchi, National Museums Scotland 'A Many-Splendored Thing': Rosalie Favell's Digital Photo-art by Amalia Conrad, University of British Columbia Changing Concepts of Community Access to Museum Photographs, a Case Study from the Jicarilla Apaches by Joyce Herold, Denver Museum of Nature & Science American Myths and Indigenous Photograph by Larry McNeil (Tlingit), Boise State University