Native Americans

In an era before photography, three painters--Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer--traveled far and wide to record the culture of Native Americans. For the first time in one volume, "Native Americans: A Portrait" presents a major selection of original paintings, drawings, and lithographs by these three artists. More than 1,000 full-color reproductions offer eyewitness accounts of battles, hunts, ceremonies, and daily life.

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Portraits of Native Americans

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Portraits of Native Americans

A treasury of turn-of-the-century Native American photographs features one or more members from each of the tribes in the nine cultural regions of North America, and provides accompanying information about language, lifestyle, and culture.

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Through a Native Lens

What is American Indian photography? At the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Curtis began creating romantic images of American Indians, and his works—along with pictures by other non-Native photographers—came to define the field. Yet beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves started using cameras to record their daily activities and to memorialize tribal members. Through a Native Lens offers a refreshing, new perspective by highlighting the active contributions of North American Indians, both as patrons who commissioned portraits and as photographers who created collections. In this richly illustrated volume, Nicole Dawn Strathman explores how indigenous peoples throughout the United States and Canada appropriated the art of photography and integrated it into their lifeways. The photographs she analyzes date to the first one hundred years of the medium, between 1840 and 1940. To account for Native activity both in front of and behind the camera, the author divides her survey into two parts. Part I focuses on Native participants, including such public figures as Sarah Winnemucca and Red Cloud, who fashioned themselves in deliberate ways for their portraits. Part II examines Native professional, semiprofessional, and amateur photographers. Drawing from tribal and state archives, libraries, museums, and individual collections, Through a Native Lens features photographs—including some never before published—that range from formal portraits to casual snapshots. The images represent multiple tribal communities across Native North America, including the Inland Tlingit, Northern Paiute, and Kiowa. Moving beyond studies of Native Americans as photographic subjects, this groundbreaking book demonstrates how indigenous peoples took control of their own images and distinguished themselves as pioneers of photography.

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Portraits from North American Indian Life

Early 1900's photography of North American Indians.

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George Catlin s Portraits of Native Americans

Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Art - Visual artists, grade: 1,30, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: This essay critically analyses the painter’s use of visual means to represent the subject and demonstrate that Catlin did not depict his sitters entirely lifelike by focusing on the authenticity, modifications and external influences of his portraits. The brief historical and cultural contextualisation of the topic will be followed by an analysis of the portraits of the tribal chiefs Stu-mick-o-súcks and Máh-to-tóh-pa as examples of ‘Republican Indians’. Subsequently, it scrutinizes the historical impact of the artist’s portraits by introducing Catlin’s narrative portrait of Wi-jún-jon, which documents an Indian individual’s fate and reveals the artist’s attitude towards Native Americans’ encounter with civilisation. Work completed under the supervision of Dr Simon Knowles in fulfilment of the requirements of the Module HA 2009 "Creator and Subject: Themes in Portraiture", University College Cork, 2016.

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Native Americans in Early Photographs

A haunting collection of portraits, this book is a fascinating record of Native Americans and proof of the compelling power and artistry of photography.

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This Song Remembers

Includes material on Pitseolak, R. C. Gorman, Gerald Vizenor, Jamake Highwater, Leslie Silko, and N. Scott Momaday.

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George Catlin

This book, and the exhibition it accompanies, showcases works from Catlin's 'Indian Gallery' - a series of portraits not seen in the UK since the 1840s - and seeks to reposition this remarkable artist for a contemporary audience. The authors explore the origins of Catlin's achievement: his ambition to record what he believed to be dying cultures, and his collecting activities, educational intentions and methods of exhibition and display, which demonstrate the growth of a new sensibility towards native peoples. While Catlin's work is well known in the USA, especially in Washington DC, where most of it is still housed in the Smithsonian Institution, George Catlin's Indian Gallery will help to bring these spectacular pictures to new audiences in Britain and around the world. Exhibition: National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (4.3.-23.6.2013)

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The Changing Face of Portrait Photography

A richly illustrated volume examines the portrait work of Dorthea lange, Richard Avedon, Robert Weingarten, George K. Warren, Julia Margaret Cameron, the Barr & Wright Studio, Gertrude Käseebier, Nickolas Muray, Henry Horenstein, and Lauren Greenfiled. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores the power of the portrait and the role it plays in our personal and national identities. The Changing Face of Portrait Photography explores ten groups of portraits selected from within the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Photographic History Collection. The selections represent work by specific photographers with diverse relationships to portraiture, and through their sampling take a focused look at changing convention, theory, and technologies.

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Rookwood

A beautiful full-color history of Rookwood Pottery, a great female-founded and female-owned American art pottery company, telling women's history, art history, and part reportage of the developments over time, as well as an "inside" look into the company and its products today.

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Wild West Scroll Saw Portraits

Scroll cowboys and Indians, rodeo riders and bulls, buffalo and antelope in this new book from Gary Browning. Include more than 50 ready-to-cut patterns and cutting instructions.

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Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978

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Heart of the Circle

Seattle-based photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) spent the first three decades of the twentieth century compiling an unparalleled photographic record of North America's indigenous peoples. His written and photographic records were published in twenty volumes as The North American Indian. Heart of the Circle is the first book devoted exclusively to Curtis's images of Native American women. Over 100 intimate and revealing portraits are included of women making pottery, tending infants in cradleboards, hauling wood, harvesting wild berries, grinding corn, stretching hides, and butchering game. The portraits are grouped by geographic region and accompanied by carefully researched, informative text.

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American Portraits and Self portraits

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The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans

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Contemporary Native American Artists

Profiles over 1,000 Native American artists who are blazing new trails in the ancient arts.

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American Photographs

In the nineteenth century, people from all walks of life embraced the new medium of photography with unparalleled enthusiasm. All of their aspirations and commonplace interests converge in the picture of nineteenth-century America vividly brought to life in American Photographs: The First Century.

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Humanities

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Portrait Index of North American Indians in Published Collections

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