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Dignity

Author: Archibishop Desmond Tutu  

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Updated second edition. This collection of iconic photographs by Dana Gluckstein honors Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Gluckstein, whether photographing a Haitian healer or a San Bushman elder, succeeds in distilling the universality of experience that links us all without diminishing the dignity of the individual. DIGNITY includes more than 100 of Gluckstein's black-and white duotone portraits, made over three decades. The photographs express the theme of tribes in transition by capturing a fleeting period of world history where traditional and contemporary cultures collide.

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Updated second edition. This collection of iconic photographs by Dana Gluckstein honors Indigenous Peoples worldwide. Gluckstein, whether photographing a Haitian healer or a San Bushman elder, succeeds in distilling the universality of experience that links us all without diminishing the dignity of the individual. DIGNITY includes more than 100 of Gluckstein's black-and white duotone portraits, made over three decades. The photographs express the theme of tribes in transition by capturing a fleeting period of world history where traditional and contemporary cultures collide.

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DIGNITY's power, artistry, and impassioned call to action make it a historic book in support of Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, who are among the world's most impoverished and oppressed inhabitants. It begins with a moving foreword by Nobel Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and an introduction by Oren R. Lyons, Native American Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation. The afterword by Dana Gluckstein chronicles the inspiration for the photographs. Powerful epilogues from Nobel Peace Prize winner Amnesty International, advocate for global implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The poetic images that comprise this updated second edition of DIGNITY are intended to bring greater awareness to the Declaration. The DIGNITY book advocacy campaign helped create a tipping point for President Obama to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in December 2010. The Declaration is the most comprehensive global statement of the measures every government must enact to ensure the survival and well-being of Indigenous Peoples. DIGNITY includes the full text of the Declaration.

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Critic Reviews

“"These are square portraits. The format imbues them with a sense of monumentality. Gluckstein may be focusing this body of work on change, but what most strongly comes across is the character of each sitter. The woman in "Aboriginal Artist, Australia, 1989"rests her head in her hands. She maybe spent, but like all these subjects, she has a regal presence that makes it hard to look away."”

"Gluckstein offers more than 90 portraits of indigenous peoples from some of the world's most impoverished and oppressed populations, managing in each frame, a rare balance of formal composition and breathtaking intimacy. Her black and white photographs of men, women, and children from -- Kenya, Mexico, Fiji, Botswana, Bhutan, Canada -- are striking textured masterpieces of mood that pay a powerful homage to imperiled cultures...signaling our collective interdependence and fragility." --Publishers Weekly

"Gluckstein's black-and-white portraits, made over three decades, tenderly explore the theme of tribal peoples in an era of transition." --The New York Times Book Review

"HOT TYPE: Dana Gluckstein honors the DIGNITY of indigenous tribes" --VANITY FAIR

"For museum director, Barbara Applegate, the power of Gluckstein's work -- on view in the exhibit "Dignity: Tribes in Transition" -- can be explained by concepts posited by French philosopher Roland Barthes. All photographs have " 'studium, ' or the facts," Applegate explains, but what makes Gluckstein's images truly affecting is "punctum," a piercing detail enabling the viewer to have a direct relationship with its subject." --Newsday --The Boston Globe

"Dana Gluckstein is a celebrated, award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in countless campaigns, newspapers, and magazines (including ELLE!). In her 30-year career, she has captured cultural luminaries from Halston and Jane Russell to Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela with her vintage Hasselblad camera, but perhaps her most important work has been her personal mission, photographing indigenous communities around the globe. These stunning, inspiring, and heart-breaking photos, spanning three decades and tens of thousands of miles, have been collected in a new book, Dignity: In Honor of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, out next week from PowerHouse Books. We caught up with the author on the eve of a special reception at Donna Karan's Urban Zen to talk about the project." --ELLE USA

"Each unflinching gaze vies for attention, dragging you across the room for a closer look. The Haitian woman draped in beads and scarf, a pipe hanging from her lips. Four Bhutanese boys sitting cross-armed on a stone wall. The Herero man in the dark double-breasted suit and hipster hat, staring through shades cloaking the Namibian sun." --Miami Herald

"Gluckstein came to understand the power of art to move the needle from "ought" to "can" while she was still a student at Stanford University (where she studied psychology, painting, and photography). In particular, she realized that images have the capacity to influence how we conceptualize and interpret the world around us. This realization resonated deeply with the young artist, whose early commercial photography campaigns took her overseas. As she traveled the globe, Gluckstein became entranced with Indigenous Peoples, many of whose ways of lives and--in some cases--very existences were under threat. Documenting these individuals in stunning photographic portraits that capture the essence of their being while also speaking to their cultural roots, heritage, and legacies became a life-long commitment; one that eventually gained Gluckestein the attention not only of the art world but also social, environmental, and political activists.

The outcome was DIGNITY; a multi-faceted, many-layered project that captures the collision of modernity and tradition, globalization and indigeneity with grace, elegance, and profound humanity." --Jill Deupi, Chief Curator, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

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About the Author

DANA GLUCKSTEIN has photographed iconic figures including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Desmond Tutu, and Muhammad Ali, as well as award-winning advertising campaigns for clients such as Apple and Toyota. Her portraits are held in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gluckstein's international museum exhibition, DIGNITY- Tribes in Transition, presented at the United Nations in Geneva and has been touring European and U.S. museums since 2011. She addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2013 on how art can impact the state of the world. DIGNITY is a three-time winner of the International Photography Awards. Gluckstein graduated from Stanford University, where she studied psychology, painting, and photography, and realized the power of images to shape consciousness. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and has two children.

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent resistance to apartheid. As an Anglican priest, he served as General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and Archbishop of Cape Town. In 1995, President Mandela appointed him chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission where he brought to light the atrocities of apartheid. In 2009, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. He now serves as Chair of the Elders, a group of eminent global leaders working to support peace and address the causes of human suffering.

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Product Details

Publisher
powerHouse Books,U.S.
Published
1st September 2020
Pages
144
ISBN
9781576879221

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