A landmark photography collection featuring work exclusively by Indigenous Americans, In Light and Shadow spans time, geography, and genre to shed new light on the understanding of Indigenous America and showcase fresh visual languages.
The book presents over 250 photographs by 80 individuals and collectives—from fine artists to family chroniclers to yearbook staffs to political groups—alongside text exploring the relationships between the images and their makers, bringing to light a canon that has been developing on its own terms for decades.
Co-authored by Iñupiaq photographer Brian Adams and photographer/author Sarah Stacke, In Light and Shadow demonstrates that Indigenous people have been making photographs for their own purposes since the dawn of the medium—from 19th-century studio operators to contemporary artists working today.
In Light and Shadow is an essential book that reshapes, transforms, and reframes the biased narrative of our existence in the Americas . . . a collection of our own photographers embodying the humor, spirit, pain, beauty, and love of our own people
Sterlin Harjo, filmmaker and 2024 MacArthur Fellow
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal/Hachette Book Group, 2025
Cover photograph by Citlali Fabián
Design by Bonnie Briant
Contributing authors Tiffany Midge, Cinthya Santos Briones, Jennifer Natalie Fish, Samantha Reinders
Hardcover
8.5 x 10″
304 pages
250 color and b/w images
ISBN-13: 9780762482467