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Unraveling Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
Between and , American photographer Edward S. Curtis () took about 40, photographs of North American Native Americans west of the Mississippi River.
His goal was to make a record of their cultures, which he – and, at the time, many others – thought were about to disappear. His project yielded the twenty-volume book series The North American Indian (hereafter: NAI).
Each book describes the cultures of one or more Native American peoples, from the California Diegueño to the Chipewyan in Canada and from the Wichita in Oklahoma to the Noatak of Alaska. In all, Curtis visited and described over eighty tribes.
Book about edward curtis photography analysis
The books are lavishly illustrated with photographs, and with each book comes a portfolio of more than 30 large-format photographs. Original full sets fetch around a million dollars these days, but today an easily affordable paperback edition is also available.
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