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Navajo Nation 1950
Jonathan B. Wittenberg
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Description for Navajo Nation 1950
Hardback. In 1950, Jonathan Wittenberg, student of biochemistry and biophysics, went to live among the Navajo, or Dine, in New Mexico. With a bulky twin-lens reflex camera, Wittenberg recorded the people and their lives. This historical document is not only a entree to a time and place, but a surprisingly fine art foray by an untrained photographic eye. Num Pages: 128 pages, 100 Colour. BIC Classification: AJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 292 x 273 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1330.
Includes a Foreword by Navajo Nation Museum Director Geoffrey I. Brown. Whether viwed as history or art, this book provides a distinct and singluar opportunity. Features over 90 beautiful duotone photopgraphs. More than fifty years ago, a young student of biochemistry and physics took his bulky, twin-lens reflex camera on a journey through the Dinetah, the land of the Navajo people. He entered with gifts - quartz crystals, abalone shells, and two bags of oranges - and he left with an invaluable photographic record of a culture. With a historical perspective provided in a Foreword by Navajo Nation ... Read more
Includes a Foreword by Navajo Nation Museum Director Geoffrey I. Brown. Whether viwed as history or art, this book provides a distinct and singluar opportunity. Features over 90 beautiful duotone photopgraphs. More than fifty years ago, a young student of biochemistry and physics took his bulky, twin-lens reflex camera on a journey through the Dinetah, the land of the Navajo people. He entered with gifts - quartz crystals, abalone shells, and two bags of oranges - and he left with an invaluable photographic record of a culture. With a historical perspective provided in a Foreword by Navajo Nation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Glitterati Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780977753192
SKU
V9780977753192
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About Jonathan B. Wittenberg
Jonathan B. Wittenberg is a Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Biophysics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College and his PhD from Columbia University. His photographs from the era in which he lived with the Navajo people can be found in the permanent collection of the Navajo Nation ... Read more
Reviews for Navajo Nation 1950
Between 1950-1953 Jonathan Wittenberg travelled throughout the Dinetah region of the Native American Navajo tribe, a region that encompasses the intersection of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. With his twin-lens reflex camera, Wittenberg captured the Navajos, and was the only non-native to be able to access them between the years of 1950-1953 - a feat he achieved by gifting ... Read more