Photographing Navajos: John Collier Jr. on the Reservation, 1948-1953
by: Doty, C. Stewart

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white phots throughout. In the early 1950s the great anthropological photographer John Collier Jr. made nearly 1,000 photographs documenting Navajo life in Fruitland, New Mexico, near the Four Corners. Lost until recently in archives far from the Southwest, most of these photos have never before been published. The authors of this book have assembled a selection of Collieri? 1/2 s Navajo photographs showing the changes in post-World War II reservation life.