Open-access edition of "Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" by Louise Siddons

FAIN: DR-292419-23

University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN 55455-2009)
Douglas M. Armato (Project Director: November 2022 to present)

Creation and dissemination of an open-access edition of "Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin and Navajo Sovereignty" by Louise Siddons, to be issued under a Creative Commons license and published on Manifold Scholarship digital platform in Fall 2023.

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Publication Type: Single Publication
Title: Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty
Year: 2024
ISBN: 9781452970592
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Author: Louise Siddons
Editor: Pieter Martin
Abstract: Siddons' book examines photographer Laura Gilpin’s classic 1968 documentary photography book, "The Enduring Navaho", in the context of Navajo sovereignty politics and identity in the southwest. Addressing the long and problematic history of white photographers capturing images of Native life, Siddons seeks to frame the photographer’s lesbian identity and her long relationship with the Navajo people around questions of allyship. 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.
Primary URL: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/good-pictures-are-a-strong-weapon
Primary URL Description: Open access edition of "Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" on the University of Minnesota Press's digital publication platform, Manifold.
Secondary URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jj.7013086
Secondary URL Description: Open access edition of "Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" on JSTOR
Type: Single author monograph

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