Silver print
14 in high x 10.75 in wide; 35.56 cm high x 27.31 cm wide
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, Arizona
This silver print by Frederic Allen Williams presents a close portrait of a Navajo man, photographed in 1926. The sitter is shown from the chest up, wearing a head scarf and patterned shirt, with the face strongly modeled by sunlight and shadow. The direct upward angle gives the portrait a more forceful visual presence than a conventional studio likeness.
Williams’s composition reduces the background almost entirely, focusing attention on expression, age, and facial structure. The photograph is part of an early 20th-century body of Southwest Native American portraiture in which individual sitters were recorded with both documentary and artistic intent. As a dated Navajo portrait, it offers a focused example of silver print photography from this period.
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Silver print
14 in high x 10.75 in wide; 35.56 cm high x 27.31 cm wide
Provenance: Private collection, Phoenix, Arizona
This silver print by Frederic Allen Williams presents a close portrait of a Navajo man, photographed in 1926. The sitter is shown from the chest up, wearing a head scarf and patterned shirt, with the face strongly modeled by sunlight and shadow. The direct upward angle gives the portrait a more forceful visual presence than a conventional studio likeness.
Williams’s composition reduces the background almost entirely, focusing attention on expression, age, and facial structure. The photograph is part of an early 20th-century body of Southwest Native American portraiture in which individual sitters were recorded with both documentary and artistic intent. As a dated Navajo portrait, it offers a focused example of silver print photography from this period.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
