Laura Gilpin: an Enduring Grace
by Martha A. Sandweiss
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0883600773
- ISBN 13
- 9780883600771
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About This Item
E-085. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 1986. 336 pgs. Illustrated with tritone photographs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Laura Gilpin (1891-1979) was a perfectionistic photographer. She would make several trips to capture a particular quality of sunlight on a mesa or a Navaho woman's face. Though she did not set out to document the Navahos' and Pueblos' endangered way of life, her sometimes romantic pictures of the American Southwest, its peoples and landscapes, form an enduring record of Indian culture, reflecting Native Americans' strong family ties and spiritual oneness with the land. Her photographs' formal perfection and deeply moving impact come through in 167 superb full-page reproductions in tritone, color and duotone. For decades Gilpin subsisted on commercial assignments while pursuing her craft and caring for the woman with whom she shared her life. Real success came only in the 1970s. This sumptuously produced biographyphoto study complements a Texas exhibition which will tour nationwide. As Sandweiss shows, Gilpin's personal circumstancesher wandering childhood, material scarcity, her family's ambiguous status in Colorado Springshelp explain her deep identification with American Indians. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65409
- Title
- Laura Gilpin: an Enduring Grace
- Author
- Martha A. Sandweiss
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0883600773
- ISBN 13
- 9780883600771
- Publisher
- Amon Carter Museum
- Place of Publication
- E-085
- This edition first published
- 1986
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