Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Type

Book

Authors

Mick Gidley

ISBN 10

0521775736

ISBN 13

9780521775731

Tags

Individual Artists, Criticism & Essays, Individual Photographers, Criticism & Theory, United States, Native American Studies, American Literature, History, Photography, Social Sciences

Description

From the 1890s onward, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of photographs; the project was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and funded in part by J. Pierpont Morgan, and spawned exhibitions, postcards, magazine articles, lecture series, a "musicale," and the very first narrative documentary film. Neither a eulogy to Curtis' achievement nor a debunking of it, this book is an honest study of the project as a collective whole. - from Amzon

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