| For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw Contributor(s): Mithlo, Nancy Marie (Editor), Smithsonian Institution (Other) |
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ISBN: 0300197454 ISBN-13: 9780300197457 Publisher: Smithsonian Institution OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs - History | Native American - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries |
| Dewey: 978.004 |
| LCCN: 2014007060 |
| Series: Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 9.36" W x 11.34" (2.71 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For more than five decades of the twentieth century, one of the first American Indian professional photographers gave an insider's view of his Oklahoma community--a community rooted in its traditional culture while also thoroughly modern and quintessentially American 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 by 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. For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw 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. |