Start: 6:00 pm
Collected Works Bookstore presents a conversation with photographers Nancy Hunter Warren and Lucian Niemeyer on Warren's latest book, Pueblo Dancing. The book examines Pueblo dance through striking black and white photographs of dancers in traditional dress from the Pueblo villages of San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, San Juan, Jemez, and Tesuque. Warren, former staff photographer for the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology, took these valuable photographs with permission in the 1970s and 1980s. Pueblo Dancing portrays Buffalo, Comanche, Corn, Deer, and Matachine ceremonial dances, supplemented with text by anthropologist Jill Drayson Sweet that explains Pueblo dances, including their experimental, symbolic, and cyclical natures. A rare look at New Mexican Pueblo customs, Pueblo Dancing is a treasured resource for all who are fascinated with Native American Culture and history.
Lucian Niemeyer joins Warren to discuss the experience of Southwest photography. Niemeyer is an internationally acclaimed photographer and author of New Mexico: Images of a Land and Its People, among other titles.