Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers

Our People, Our Land, Our Images: International Indigenous Photographers

Over 100 years of indigenous art photographyWhether probing personal identity or exploring the world around them, twenty-six indigenous photographers present images that are fresh, provocative, iconoclastic, surprising, and--in the broadest and deepest meaning of the word--authentic. Their works range from the artful studio portraits of Benjamin A. Haldane (Tsimshian), who photographed Native communities throughout southeast Alaska and British Columbia in the late 1800s and early 1900s, to the cutting-edge digital photographs of contemporary Native artists. Their cameras variously capture startled eyes, hidden laughter, misappropriated icons, and neon signs of cultural change.About the AuthorHulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie (Seminole/Muskogee/Dine) says photography and video are her primary languages. She has been a recipient of the Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art, a Chancellor's Fellowship at UC Irvine, and the First Peoples Community Artist Award, and she was a Rockefeller artist in residence. She is the director of the C. N. Gorman Museum and an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies, both at UC Davis.Veronica Passalacqua has been a writer, curator, and scholar of Native North American art for the past fifteen years. She is currently a curator at the C. N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and is completing her doctorate in museum studies from Oxford University.