Navajo Nation 1950 : Traditional Life in Photographs Hardback

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 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.