Seated at a loom or silhouetted by a panoramic Monument Valley landscape, our most enduring impressions of Navajo women are frozen in time on postcard nostalgia and in coffeetable books. In this modernized representation of Navajo women—seen through the lens of Diné photographer LeRoy DeJolie—the resulting portraits reveal the evolution of traditional apparel that sings the stories of land, history and progress.
Late afternoon, in a downtown Phoenix neighborhood where many might fear to tread-save fearless artists and journalists-Steven Yazzie begins his day. Just arisen and in need of a Starbucks fix, the tattooed, friendly painter conducts a meandering tour of the studio where he has produced a majority of his work in his five-year career as a professional artist.
Seated at a loom or silhouetted by a panoramic Monument Valley landscape, our most enduring impressions of Navajo women are frozen in time on postcard nostalgia and in coffeetable books. In this modernized representation of Navajo women—seen through the lens of Diné photographer LeRoy DeJolie—the resulting portraits reveal the evolution of traditional apparel that sings the stories of land, history and progress.
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Late afternoon, in a downtown Phoenix neighborhood where many might fear to tread-save fearless artists and journalists-Steven Yazzie begins his day. Just arisen and in need of a Starbucks fix, the tattooed, friendly painter conducts a meandering tour of the studio where he has produced a majority of his work in his five-year career as a professional artist.
