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Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty

By (author) Louise Siddons

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What are the limits of political solidarity, and how can visual culture contribute to social change? A fundamental dilemma exists in documentary photography: can white artists successfully portray Indigenous lives and communities in a manner that neither appropriates nor romanticizes them? With an attentive and sensitive eye, Louise Siddons examines lesbian photographer Laura Gilpinâ€™s classic 1968 book The Enduring Navaho to illuminate the intersectional politics of photography, Navajo sovereignty, and queerness over the course of the twentieth century. Â Gilpin was a New Yorkâ€“trained fine arts photographer who started working with Navajo people when her partner accepted a job as a nurse in Arizona. She spent more than three decades documenting Navajo life and creating her book in collaboration with Navajo friends and colleagues. Framing her lesbian identity and her long relationship with the Navajo people around questions of allyship, Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon addresses the long and problematic history of White photographers capturing images of Native life. Simultaneously, Siddons uses Gilpinâ€™s work to explore the limitations of White advocacy in a political moment that emphasized the need for Indigenous visibility and voices. Â Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon introduces contemporary DinÃ‰ (Navajo) artists as interlocutors, critics, and activists whose work embodies and extends the cultural sovereignty politics of earlier generations and makes visible the queerness often left implicit in Gilpinâ€™s photographs. Siddons puts their work in conversation with Gilpinâ€™s, taking up her mandate to viewers and readers of The Enduring Navajo to address Navajo aesthetics, traditions, politics, and people on their own terms. Â Â Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

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