| Contents |
The gaze of Western Humanism : photography as enterprise : Navajo, photography, anthropology, Navajo history -- The registers of photography of Navajo : method as political critique : valences in the photography of Navajo -- A Historical sketch of nineteenth-century photography of Navajo : the first photographers : photographers, 1870-1900 -- The vanishing race: Edward S. Curtis -- Photography of Navajo to mid-century: saturated fields of visibility : the settling of Tropes: the first two decades : photography of Navajo after 1920 : bureaucrats, postal cards, and color slides -- The endearing Navajo: Laura Gilpin -- Selling Navajo images: contemporary picture books and photographic modernism -- Navajo photographers -- Conclusions. |
