Navajo: Portrait of a Nation

Westcliffe Publishers . Softcover. Good. 10x0x12. Signed by Author. Some light dampstaining to margins of a few pages. Signed copies rarely offered. With the support of the Navajo Nation Tribal Council, photographer Joel Grimes has dedicated two years to this project, traveling and living among the Navajo. His portraits of this unique people and their land are interspersed with excerpts from traditional Navajo songs and interviews by writer Barry Reid. Over 130 photographs, many in full color. Joel graduated from the University of Arizona in 1984 with a BFA in Photography, and soon established a commercial studio in Denver, Colorado. Joel has been selected as one of Canon’s exclusive Explorer Of Light photographers. For over 35 years Joel has worked for many of the top advertising agencies and corporations across the globe. Over the years his assignments have taken him to every state across the USA and fifty countries around the globe. In 1990 Joel produced his first coffee table book, ‘Navajo, Portrait of a Nation’ which received a number of photographic and design awards and produce an eighteen-month sixty print solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American History museum in Washington DC.