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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 Museum Director Geoffrey I. Brown and an exhaustive introduction by the author/photographer himself, Navajo Nation 1950 is as informative as it is visually stunning. The scenes and events described in the photographer's essay are more than just stories; in fact, they are more important now than ever, in that Wittenberg is the only non-native photographer who had access to the Navajo Nation people and lands during the years 1950-1952. Today, access has been limited even further by The People, so some of the landscapes seen here can only be seen through Wittenberg's lens. Now that half a century has passed, the traditions of the Dine have evolved, so that extensive anecdotal and photographic records like this one become invaluable historic documents, as well as a feast for the eyes.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs

• Full title: Navajo Nation 1950
• Subtitle: Traditional Life in Photographs
• Author: Jonathan B. Wittenberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 128
• EAN: 9780977753192
• ID: 04766279
• Publisher: Glitterati Inc
• Weight: 1266 g
• Dimensions: 292 × 273 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. July 2006

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