Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated |
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| Author:
| Gidley, Mick |
| Contribution by:
| Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-77573-1 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2000 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $67.95 |
Book Description:
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From the 1890s onwards, 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's achievement nor a...
More DescriptionFrom the 1890s onwards, 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's achievement nor a debunking of it, this book is an honest study of the project as a collective whole.