Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography

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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art exhibition Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography provides a major institutional examination of contemporary Indigenous photography across the US. This groundbreaking project summarizes how these artists have taken over the conversation about how their cultures and lives are depicted through their dynamic embrace of three interwoven themes: Survivance, Nation, and Indigenous Visuality. The photographers demand that their existence, perspectives, and troubling history be acknowledged, as they enact a key shift away from privileging settler-colonialism, foregrounding instead an Indigenous sense of community and visuality.

This volume reveals and examines these Indigenous artists’ explorations of themes like identity, the contribution of customary practice to contemporary life, belonging, and the assistance that Indigenous worldviews can provide to building healthier relationships with each other and the earth. Like the exhibition, the book is comprised of four sections bridged by transitions and ending with a globalization of the discussion. Texts by key Indigenous scholars are followed by a series of plates illustrating many of the exhibition works. Not an exhibition catalogue per se, Speaking with Light is a statement about the preoccupations and dynamism of Indigenous photography today.

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The Amon Carter Museum of American Art exhibition Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography provides a major institutional examination of contemporary Indigenous photography across the US. This groundbreaking project summarizes how these artists have taken over the conversation about how their cultures and lives are depicted through their dynamic embrace of three interwoven themes: Survivance, Nation, and Indigenous Visuality. The photographers demand that their existence, perspectives, and troubling history be acknowledged, as they enact a key shift away from privileging settler-colonialism, foregrounding instead an Indigenous sense of community and visuality.

This volume reveals and examines these Indigenous artists’ explorations of themes like identity, the contribution of customary practice to contemporary life, belonging, and the assistance that Indigenous worldviews can provide to building healthier relationships with each other and the earth. Like the exhibition, the book is comprised of four sections bridged by transitions and ending with a globalization of the discussion. Texts by key Indigenous scholars are followed by a series of plates illustrating many of the exhibition works. Not an exhibition catalogue per se, Speaking with Light is a statement about the preoccupations and dynamism of Indigenous photography today.

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  • Speaking with Light features the work of more than twenty-five artists, including Nicholas Galanin, Sky Hopinka, Zig Jackson, Kapulani Landgraf, Dylan McLaughlin, Alan Michelson, Shelley Niro, Jolene Rickard, Wendy Red Star, Cara Romero, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, and a new commission by Sarah Sense.


    Edited with acknowledgements by John Rohrbach and Will Wilson
    Foreword by Will Wilson
    Introduction by Patricia Norby
    Texts by Jennifer Denetdale, Paul Chaat Smith, Jolene Rickard, and Mishuana Goeman

    Co-published with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

    Hardcover
    11.5 x 13 inches
    220 pages / 125 images
    ISBN: 9781955161046