Wendy Red Star: Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the Apsáalooke/Crow artist’s work. Published by Aperture in 2022, it gathers lens-based projects made from 2006 onward and places Red Star’s sustained engagement with Native American life and material culture at the center. The book is not organized around a single photographic idiom: self-portraiture, collage, archival intervention, and site-specific installation all become means of examining how Indigenous people are pictured, classified, and remembered.

Red Star works across sharply different sources and registers. Nineteenth-century Crow leaders, museum collections, family photographs, and 1980s pulp fiction enter the same field, where humor and candor unsettle inherited historical narratives. Her feminist and Indigenous perspective is inseparable from the book’s formal intelligence: images do not simply illustrate a history but expose the structures through which that history has been made visible. The result is an artistic inquiry into the photographer’s role in constructing representation, as well as a reassertion of Native presence on its own terms.

The volume’s scope is extended by essays, stories, and poems, creating a publication that can be read as both monograph and critical anthology. For collectors, its importance lies in this breadth and in the clarity with which it brings together Red Star’s recurring concerns—identity, archival power, cultural memory, and the politics of display—across varied bodies of work. Delegation deserves attention as a substantial record of an artist whose photographic practice is inseparable from questions of history and authority, while remaining inventive, direct, and visually alert.