1950's NAVAJO PORTRAITS~LAURA GILPIN~ENDURING NAVAHO HC

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1950's NAVAJO PORTRAITS~LAURA GILPIN~ENDURING NAVAHO HC/DJ The Enduring Navaho, by Laura Gilpin. 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. are her photographs in both b/w and color, many full-page of the Navaho people and the stories of their lives in the 1950s and 1960s. 1968 Self Published, Santa Fe NM. Presumed First Edition; Hardcover with unclipped dustjacket in Brodart. Light green cloth boards, square and sharp corners; clean, clear and tight copy in VERY FINE/FINE condition. Previous owners name on front flap of dj, otherwise unmarked. Text is pristine. read more

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