The Navajo photography of Edward S. Curtis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14693998 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James C Faris (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 377-389 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Photography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-7298 • E-ISSN: 2150-7295 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03087298.1993.10442320 |
| OpenAlex | W2035773659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Navajo people of the American Southwest have been abundantly photographed since the beginnings of photography's extension into Western America — indeed, from almost since the beginnings of photography itself. Navajoland ‘offered’ dramatic landscapes and ‘The People’1 have served as exemplar for an assorted series of Western projects, changes in Western projects, and objects of Western desire. The photographs of Native Americans by Edward S. Curtis, though largely ignored during his lifetime, emerged shortly after his death in 1952 to become popular icons, which were so dramatic a phenomenon from the 1960s that today they are something of a cliché. ‘Original’ prints currently sell for thousands of dollars.2 This resurrection is also characteristic among specialists on Native Americans. Indeed, after having been neglected and abused by anthropology for many years for his elaborate staging, soft focus, excessive pastoral romanticism and nostalgia, Curtis has more recently become fashionable again and now enjoys something of an anthropological embrace.3
Art · Art history · Navajo · Photography · Visual arts · History · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2000 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |