For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)

ISBN: 0300197454

Author: Smithsonian Institution

Condition: New

For more than five decades of the twentieth century, one of the first American Indian professional photographers gave an insiders view of his Oklahoma community-a community rooted in its traditional culture while also thoroughly modern and quintessentially AmericanHorace 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, Poolaws work celebrates his subjects place in American life and preserves an insiders 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 Poolaws 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.Distributed for the National Museum of the American Indian