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Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty
Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty
What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change? 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 The Enduring Navaho to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century.
University of Minnesota Press
Siddons, Louise
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Siddons, Louise
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Siddons, Louise (2024) Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty , University of Minnesota Press, 320pp.

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What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change? 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 The Enduring Navaho to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century.

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Local EPrints ID: 488058
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/488058
PURE UUID: f447c879-2c17-44b1-a40d-ccb7c7bc6aee
ORCID for Louise Siddons: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-8112

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Date deposited: 14 Mar 2024 17:33
Last modified: 18 Mar 2024 04:07

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