This is a book of superb photographs. Its portraits of individuals and family groups convey a quality of intimacy and serenity; its landscapes spread out the dramatic setting of desert, mountain, and canyon in which these people live; and its scenes of daily activity show many of the details of the way their life has been lived. Among the pictorial records of Navajo country and life, Miss Gilpin's volume deserves a special place. --American Anthropologist This is not a brand new book, nor a best-seller here today and gone ...
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This is a book of superb photographs. Its portraits of individuals and family groups convey a quality of intimacy and serenity; its landscapes spread out the dramatic setting of desert, mountain, and canyon in which these people live; and its scenes of daily activity show many of the details of the way their life has been lived. Among the pictorial records of Navajo country and life, Miss Gilpin's volume deserves a special place. --American Anthropologist This is not a brand new book, nor a best-seller here today and gone tomorrow. It is record of the Navajo people and their country, a book to keep and to refer to over and over again, always with deep pleasure. Do friends ask you about the Navajos? Send them this book, for it is the heart of the tribe. --The Navajo Times This book can't be summarized successfully. It needs to be seen and read, and then savoured again and again for a joyous adventure in beauty and spirit. --Santa Fe New Mexican . . . a touching tribute to The People, to their endurance and their adaptability, to their vanishing way of life and to the new one opening ahead of them. --Sacramento Bee A contemporary of Mary Austin, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Willa Cather, Laura Gilpin was unique among women chroniclers of the Southwest because she worked in photography. She perceived the region as an environment for human activity rather than a place for untouched beauty, and her empathy for her subjects is evident in her work. Even in her eighties--ignoring the physical infirmities of age--she would camp overnight to be near a place she wanted to photograph at the break of day. The vast empty stretches of the southwestern desert did not deter her. She thought nothing ofdriving several hundred miles to make one image of a Navajo ceremony or making a long flight in a small plane to see a particular mountain peak. Gilpin's sixty-year career established her as one of the outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Here are her pictures of the Navaho people and the stories of their lives in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Fair. Spine fully rolled, unsetting spine glue but binding still intact, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. No dust jacket. Green boards bright with light scuffs and rubs. Extremities bumped with softened, frayed corners. No expedited or international shipping, oversize.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 11x8x1; Fifth printing. Light rubbing to extremities and softening to head of spine. Contents are clean and crisp. Dust jacket in Mylar shows light general wear and a small edge tear on back cover. 264pp.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Near Fine. Book 264 pages Minor rubbing and wear to the edges. Partial fading to the paper spine. Third paperback printing. Illustrated wraps. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0292783787. Second Printing. Briefly inscribed by Gilpin on the half-title page. Green cloth with the spine stamped in silver and black. Rubbing to the rear board. The dust jacket is rubbed, primarily to the spine and corners. A chip to the heel of the spine, and a closed tear to the rear panel. A classic of American landscape photography.; 264 pages; Signed by Author.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by Gilpin on the half-title page. This copy is a third printing from 1973. The binding is tight, bottom corners lightly bumped. Text and images are unmarked. Gift inscription on the FFEP. The photo illustrated dust jacket has small chips w/ loss at the head of the spine, a 1" wide chip on the bottom edge of the back panel, small closed tear at the top edge of the back wrap, edge wear, light soiling, unclipped, in a mylar cover.
