Description:
This compelling book reveals what we know about the collection, its compiler, and the photographer--or photographers--who captured such a fraught and complex moment in the history of the American Southwest.
Brief description:
Devorah Romanek received her PhD in visual anthropology from University College London. She is an anthropologist and art historian and Curator of Exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico.
Review Quotes: "This compelling compilation of photographs is being published 150 years after they were put together as a souvenir album by an unknown military officer stationed in New Mexico Territory in the aftermath of the Civil War. Reproducing the souvenir album in its entirety, the book contains what may be the earliest existing photographs of Navajo Indians, along with both studio and field images of U.S. Army officers, Mexican politicians, and various sites throughout New Mexico."-- Cowboys and Indians, Art and Hearth Books