Big Mountain Dine Ebook
Endangered Navajo
by John Running
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About the Ebook
I made these photographs of the Big Mountain Dine’ in the summer and fall of 1978. I then was working on a project to document Navajo People threatened with relocation from their traditional homes in the Big Mountain area. Big Mountain is not really very big. It is a mesa covered in pinion and juniper, but, for the Navajo, it is a place that is sacred and especially cherished. It is a place where Dine’ go to pray and make offerings for their
livestock and to gather sacred and medicinal plants.
Now I have revisited my photographs of the Big Mountain Dine’ after thirty years. Originally shot on black and white film and printed in my darkroom, I have scanned my prints, digitized them and now present them in a new way on antiqued paper bounded by a protective rainbow. I love the process of re-working my photographs and
presenting them in a new way.
According to congress and the courts the land dispute is over. A zigzag barbed wire fence divides the land. But the Big Mountain Dine’ still live with the consequences. Isvaki Gallery displays these photos to remind us not to repeat the past decisions about our indigenous neighbors: the Hopi, Navajo, Apache, Haulapai, Yavapai, Havasupai, Tohono Odham, Mohave, Ute and Piaute.
John Running
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Arts & Photography Books
- Version Fixed-layout ebook, 36 pgs
- Publish Date: Dec 03, 2011
- Last Edit Aug 06, 2012
- Language English
- Keywords Indian, American, Indian, Native, Native, American, Navajo, Arizona, AZ, Reservation, Black, and, white, portraits
About the Creator
John Running has lived in Flagstaff, Arizona for the past 40 years. He has been making photographs for advertising, design and editorial clients for over 35 years. He specializes in photographing people on location or in the studio. His photographs stand out because they have a style that is personally creative and graphically strong. Give him 1/125th of a second and he will give you so much more. Running has been photographing the female nude for all of his 35 years as a professional photographer. The women he photographs are both sensual and strong. His photographs are collaboration with his models where there is room for each to express their creativity. His work reminds us that eroticism is yet another culturally laden value that depends on choices made by its consumers to be effective.