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Helen Post (1907-1978), later Helen Post Modley, was an American photographer known for her photographs of American Indians in the Southwestern United States in the 1930s.

Early life
Helen Margaret Post was born in 1907 in Bloomfield, New Jersey. She studied ceramics at Alfred University before moving to Europe in the early 1920s to study with her sister, Marion Post Wolcott. Helen apprenticed with Viennese photographer Trude Fleischmann. She lived in Vienna for several years, developing her approach to portraiture and appreciation for Fleischmann's Pictorialist style.

Career
After returning to America, she began a career as a freelance photographer in New York City. In 1937 she married Rudolf Modley, an Jewish-Austrian graphic designer and government consultant.

She traveled around the Southwestern United States beginning in the late 1930s, documenting the life and customs of the Sioux, Navajo, Apache, Hopi, and Pueblo people. She was commissioned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to photograph Navajo people; her photographs illustrated works including As Long as the Grass Shall Grow by social anthropologist Oliver La Farge and Brave Against the Enemy by Ann Nolan Clark.

While not without fault, Post was known for her attempts to collaborate with Navajo people on friendly terms—communicating personally with individuals before portrait sessions, employing Navajo translators in order to communicate, and dressing appropriately when visiting the reservation—an approach many of her contemporaries did not share. Her photographs depict a wide range of individuals at rest and during daily activities, wearing both traditional and modern clothing. Post's portraits, while posed, depict a depth of human emotion uncommon in earlier portraits of American Indians, such as those by Edward S. Curtis, or even those of her contemporary Laura Gilpin.

Helen Post's archives are held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.