Author: Kate CoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This extraordinary collection of photographs was made 80 years ago on the Hopi mesas of northern Arizona by Kate Thompson Cory, a woman out of step with her time. For unknown reasons, Cory was not only befriended by the normally xenophobic Hopi, and given a home in their villages, she was allowed something almost all outsiders have been denied: a look into the heart of Hopi life. The results of that trust are images of social and sacred events unlike anything seen through the eye of a camera. Cory's intimacy with the Hopi is apparent in each of these images. From her portraits, and scenes of daily life, to the exotic rituals that have fascinated visitors for centuries, she captured the Hopi Way, the profound spiritual and orderly community that allowed Hopi cultures to endure for a thousand years. That she could have achieved such a high technical quality is equally remarkable. She became an adept and dexterous photographer at a time when most Americans considered the medium a novelty. What has been achieved by bringing this collection to light is a record of unarguable historic and aesthetic importance- the capture of anthropological moments frozen in time, when change had not yet overwhelmed the enduring Hopi. -- from Back Cover.
