Photography
The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803215126
Category: Photography
Page: 204
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The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains?Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others?are recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868?1952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because of his monumental work, The North American Indian (1907?1930), which consists of twenty portfolios of large photogravures and twenty volumes of text on more than eighty Indian groups in the West. He took pictures of Plains Indians for over twenty years, and his photographs reflect both prevailing attitudes about Indians and Curtis's own vision of differences among the Native peoples whom he photographed. ø Curtis's photographs have exerted an enduring influence?both positive and negative?on mainstream American culture. They have inspired countless books, articles, and photographic exhibitions, and they continue to appear on posters, postcards, and other souvenirs. Accompanying the remarkable array of images in this book are essays by leading scholars that place the photographs within their proper critical, cultural, and historical contexts. The scholars contributing to this work are Martha H. Kennedy, Martha A. Sandweiss, Mick Gidley, and Duane Niatum.
Indians of North America
The North American Indian
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89082600446
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 780
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Provides a unique pictorial record of more than 80 American Indian tribes, their traditions and customs.Edward S. Curtis
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN: OCLC:79109619
Category:
Page: 4
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Indians of North America
The North American Indians
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher: London : G. Fraser
ISBN: STANFORD:36105042963020
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 104
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A selection of Curtis' photographs taken during the thirty five years he spent documenting Native American life.
Indians of North America
The North American Indians: a Selection of Photographs by Edward S. Curtis
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher: Droke House/Hallux
ISBN: OCLC:612694825
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 94
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A selection of Curtis' photographs taken during the thirty five years he spent documenting Native American life.
Social Science
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field
Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803221932
Category: Social Science
Page: 226
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Housing a wealth of ethnographic information yet steeped in nostalgia and predicated upon the assumption that Native Americans were a "vanishing race," Curtis's work has been both influential and controversial, and its vision of Native Americans must still be reckoned with today."--BOOK JACKET.
Photography
Edward S. Curtis
Author: Christopher Cardozo
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9783791354217
Category: Photography
Page: 0
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Showcasing Edward Curtis's most compelling and important works, this beautiful publication highlights both iconic and rarely seen images, demonstrating his artistry and mastery of photographic mediums, and his commitment to documenting and preserving for posterity the Native Americans’ traditions and ways of life. Widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on Edward Curtis, author Christopher Cardozo has curated a groundbreaking monograph on internationally renowned photographer Edward Curtis. Curtis’s magnum opus, The North American Indian, the most extensive photographic portrait of Native Americans, is a crucial contribution to the history of America’s Native peoples as well as a testament to his tireless efforts to document and express the spirit of over eighty distinct tribal groups. In this book Cardozo selected from an unmatched private archive of rare and unique Curtis original, vintage photographs. Never before have Curtis’s finest photographs been presented with such fidelity and power in book form. Every style, subject matter, cultural and geographic area, and print medium Curtis worked in is included. The stunning photographs are further enriched and contextualized by essays from world-recognized experts. Creating a unique visual mosaic, the photographs give the viewer a deep, rich understanding of Curtis’s accomplishments as an artist, while exploring the crucial role the Native American participants played in co-creating this iconic body of work.
Social Science
The Gift of the Face
Author: Shamoon Zamir
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9781469611761
Category: Social Science
Page: 351
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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples as a "vanishing race," hiding both their engagement with modernity and the history of colonial violence. But in this major reappraisal of Curtis's work, Shamoon Zamir argues instead that Curtis's photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies. This crisis is captured profoundly, and with remarkable empathy, in Curtis's images of the human face. Zamir also contends that we can fully understand this achievement only if we think of Curtis's Native subjects as coauthors of his project. This radical reassessment is presented as a series of close readings that explore the relationship of aesthetics and ethics in photography. Zamir's richly illustrated study resituates Curtis's work in Native American studies and in the histories of photography and visual anthropology.
Documentary photography
Edward S. Curtis' North American Indian Photographs CD-ROM and Book
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher:
ISBN: 0486990974
Category: Documentary photography
Page: 0
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From 1900 to 1930, Edward S. Curtis created a massive photographic and ethnographic record of 80 American Indian tribes. This collection of 240 sepia-tone images presents the best and most striking pictures from Curtis's documentation of a traditional culture on the verge of extinction. Photographs include striking portraits of Geronimo, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, and other prominent individuals.
Literary Criticism
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated
Author: Mick Gidley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521775736
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 346
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A study of the literary influence of Edward Curtis's multi-volume collections of Native American photographs.
Photography
Edward S. Curtis
Author: Don Gulbrandsen
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 9780785826507
Category: Photography
Page: 259
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Edward S. Curtis: Visions of the First Americans is a tribute to the photographer, his work, but above all to the Native Americans he photographed. Chapters on many different Native American tribes make this collection unique. Edward Curtis's recognizable style, saturated with sepia, is immediately recognizable. He captures not only the striking faces of his subjects, but also a glimpse into the lifestyle of each Native American tribe he photographed. Women grind corn, and communities gather outside their traditional living areas. Atop horses, Native Americans ride on the prarie. Papooses are bundled in woven carrying packs, and men are dressed in full feathered regalia. These images paint a picture, known to us now only as a historical memory. Many tribes are featured in this volume, from the familiar Apache and Navaho to lesser-known tribes. This book will draw in readers who are interested in world cultures, along with photography buffs and historians. This hardcover volume is a wonderful addition to any library.
History
The Image Taker
Author: Edward S. Curtis
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
ISBN: 9781933316703
Category: History
Page: 194
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The photographs and stories of Edward S Curtis, speak though time of a bygone age.