Sign Language: Contemporary Southwest Native America Book

Sign Language, Contemporary Southwest Native America. Photographs by Skeet McAuley; Introduction by N. Scott Momaday; Traditional Navajo Stories by Mike Mitchell; Essays by Luci Tapahonso and Martha A. Sandweiss. Part anthropology, part oral history, Sign Languages takes a daring and unsentimental look at the plight of the land in America and its Native American People. 50 fourcolor photographs, 11 1/8 X 9 1/8, pages..

"Skeet McAuley (who is not a Native American) has used his considerable talents as a photographer to create a collection of images that have a unique duality combining the informality of snapshots with a perceptive eye for catching those juxtapositions. These tell us that this is indeed 'Contemporary Southwest Native America.'"

Bryce Milligan, San Antonio Light

"The juxtaposition of ironic elements is a convention of long standing in photography. Yet Skeet McAuley, a photographer based in Texas, uses this convention so effectively and poignantly as to make it new."

Judy Tillinger, The Daily News