{"product_id":"good-pictures-are-a-strong-weapon-laura-gilpin-queerness-and-navajo-sovereignty-paperback","title":"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouise Siddons\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither appropriates nor romanticizes them? With an attentive and sensitive eye, Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpin's classic 1968 book \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Navaho\u003c\/i\u003e to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Gilpin was a New York-trained fine arts photographer who started working with Navajo people when her partner accepted a job as a nurse in Arizona. She spent more than three decades documenting Navajo life and creating her book in collaboration with Navajo friends and colleagues. Framing her lesbian identity and her long relationship with the Navajo people around questions of allyship, \u003ci\u003eGood Pictures Are a Strong Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the long and problematic history of White photographers capturing images of Native life. Simultaneously, Siddons uses Gilpin's work to explore the limitations of White advocacy in a political moment that emphasized the need for Indigenous visibility and voices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Pictures Are a Strong Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e introduces contemporary Din? (Navajo) artists as interlocutors, critics, and activists whose work embodies and extends the cultural sovereignty politics of earlier generations and makes visible the queerness often left implicit in Gilpin's photographs. Siddons puts their work in conversation with Gilpin's, taking up her mandate to viewers and readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Navajo\u003c\/i\u003e to address Navajo aesthetics, traditions, politics, and people on their own terms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Louise Siddons is professor of visual politics and Head of the Department of Art and Media Technology at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. She is author of \u003ci\u003eCentering Modernism: J. Jay McVicker and Postwar American Art\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 9.92 x 6.93 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42686283841599,"sku":"9781517910730","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/1929350f8649ddf5189a2bd7d52a37ae.webp?v=1764974469","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/good-pictures-are-a-strong-weapon-laura-gilpin-queerness-and-navajo-sovereignty-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}