Post by Californian on Nov 1, 2020 22:13:46 GMT -5
As long as the Grass shall grow, by Oliver La Farge, 1940 Alliance Book Corporation, Longmans, Green & Co., New York NY, hardcover, octavo format, 140 p.
Helen M. Post (1907-1979), a talented photographer who worked on Indian reservations throughout the West and captured images that are both striking and informative, produced the pictures for novelist Oliver La Farge’s nonfiction book As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (1940) and her output constitutes a powerful representation of Native American life at that time. A beautiful book and an important book, it is a study of Indians during the 1940's in text and pictures. The photographs by Helen M. Post are a story in themselves; with their captions and the revealing accompanying text by a man who knows the Indians intimately, they make a record of a blot on our civilization, and throw some light on work that was being done under the Dept. of the Interior at that period. The author's heartfelt critical account of the white man's treatment of Native Americans, and the continuing survival and accomplishments of the latter.
Helen M. Post (1907-1979), a talented photographer who worked on Indian reservations throughout the West and captured images that are both striking and informative, produced the pictures for novelist Oliver La Farge’s nonfiction book As Long As the Grass Shall Grow (1940) and her output constitutes a powerful representation of Native American life at that time. A beautiful book and an important book, it is a study of Indians during the 1940's in text and pictures. The photographs by Helen M. Post are a story in themselves; with their captions and the revealing accompanying text by a man who knows the Indians intimately, they make a record of a blot on our civilization, and throw some light on work that was being done under the Dept. of the Interior at that period. The author's heartfelt critical account of the white man's treatment of Native Americans, and the continuing survival and accomplishments of the latter.