Silver Gelatine Photograph Of Tony Hillerman

ERNIE BULOW

Publication: Privately photographed by Ernie Bulow, 1985, Gallup, New Mexico

Silver gelatine photograph 25.5 x 30.5 cm. [10" x 12"] mounted on a plain white board 41 x 51 cm. [16" x 20"].and further protected by transparent shrink-wrap material. The photograph exhibits strong contrasts. Portrait of Hillerman seated in his office, looking fresh in his Members Only jacket and Casio. Boldly signed by Hillerman to the left of his face. Tony Hillerman (1928-2008) was born and raised in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma. He joined the US Army in 1943 and won the Silver Star, the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Purple Heart after being wounded. After the war he attended the University of Oklahoma and worked as a journalist, eventually becoming editor of the New Mexican. In 1963 he went to graduate school at the University of New Mexico and joined the journalism faculty there in 1966. His first Navajo mystery, The Blessing Way, was published in 1970. Over the next thirty-plus years he would go on to publish dozens of widely acclaimed works, of which most were bestsellers. Ernie Bulow (1943-2021) was a sometime bookman whose interests and experiences extended to journalism, photography, Indian trading, writing, silversmithing, and teaching. After taking a degree in English in the early sixties he worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, living in Gallup and teaching English at Fort Wingate on the Navajo Reservation. Following receipt of a doctorate from the University of Utah, he returned to New Mexico, where he traded in Indian jewelry and Kachinas and opened a bookstore, among other activities. The photograph is in fine condition and suitable for framing.

Inventory Number: 52273