Medicine Man

Titled at viewer's lower left in blue ink

Titled in the book "The Chief, 1948"

"This man is a Navajo who lived up in the Paiute country, which is north of Navajo Mountain.  This is one of my favorite pictures."  Barry Goldwater

Purchase of this photograph includes The Eyes of His Soul  The Visual Legacy of Barry M. Goldwater, Master Photographerin which Medicine Man is pictured on page 159  

Unsigned versions of Senator Goldwater's photographs are sold for $3,000.00.  

(1909 - 1998) Senator Barry Goldwater's portraits of Navajo people, which date back to the 1930's have been published in issues of the Arizona Highways magazine and in his book, Face of Arizona.

Goldwater's images provide a historical glimpse at what has long been the second most popular genre (after landscape) of photography in Arizona--cultural portraiture.

They represent the long-standing tradition of photographers such as Timothy O'Sullivan, Edward Curtis, Adam Clarke Vroman and many others depicting American Indian people sympathetically within the backdrop of their own culture and landscape.