"This volume [is] a companion piece to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) exhibition ... ; [it] represents the only major publication of Horace Poolaw's work and celebrates the first retrospective exhibition of his photographs in almost twenty-five years"--Foreword.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition For a Love of His People: the Photography of Horace Poolaw, opening at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York, on August 9, 2014.
Foreword / Kevin Gover and Tim Johnson
Preface: Family Pictures/Family Stories / Martha Sandweiss
Introduction: The Transcendence of the Everyday / John Haworth
Insider Knowledge / Tom Jones
"An Age of Pictures More than Words" : Theorizing Early American Indian Photography / Ned Blackhawk
Breaking the Bounds of Documentation / David Grant Noble
For a Love of His People / Linda Poolaw
Reflections / Richard Ray Whitman
Why Horace Poolaw's Indians Won't Vanish / David W. Penney
Horace Poolaw : "Pictures by an Indian" / Nancy Marie Mithlo
Fancy / John Poolaw
Planes, Flags, and Automobiles : Horace Poolaw's American Legacy / Cheryl Finley
Beaded Buckskins and Bad-Girl Bobs : Kiowa Female Identity, Industry, and Activism in Horace Poolaw's Portraits / Laura Smith
Justin Poolaw Comes to Visit [+ untitled reflections] / Vanessa Jennings
Afterword
This is My Family / Dane Poolaw
Appendix A: Horace Poolaw Biography / Laura Smith
Appendix B: Kiowa names and their phonetic spellings
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For a love of his people : the photography of Horace Poolaw. ISBN 9780300197457. Published by National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
