Medicine Man
Barry Goldwater
- Savvy Price $1,000.00
- Gallery Price $5,000.00
- Title
- Medicine Man
- Artist
- Barry Goldwater
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print, vintage
- Image size
- 19 1/2" height X 15" width
- Frame
- Hand-wrapped window mat board, regular glass, wood molding
- Frame size
- 30" height X 25" width
- Signed
- "Barry Goldwater ARPS" at viewer's lower right in blue ink
- Date of creation
- 1948 (negative created)
- Condition
- Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
- Provenance
- Jo Re, originally from Valley National Bank Collection (label affixed to dust cover)
- About The 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.
- About Barry Goldwater
(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.
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