Laura Gilpin, Early Work

Luke Yazzie

Tags: Black & White, Figurative, Historical, People, Time • Past • Future • Now

About the artist

Born in Colorado, Laura Gilpin attended a Connecticut preparatory school to study music and later the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. Study with White led her to initially embrace a pictorialist style that emphasized beauty and artistic creation over photography’s documentary qualities.As photography advanced in the early decades of the 20th … continue reading

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Details

Medium: Gelatin silver photograph
Date: 1952
Size: 8x10"

Luke Yazzie is photographed in profile at Pine Springs, a small community southwest of the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, in 1952. “Good manners and simple courtesy are very much a part of Navaho life,” Gilpin wrote, “and there is always a right way and a wrong way to do everything. This is why Navaho People deliberate before every act, before every spoken word.”

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