WESTERN PHOTOGRAPHY: EDWARD S. CURTIS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SHADOW CATCHER

EDWARD S. CURTIS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A SHADOW CATCHER EDWARD S. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A Edward S. Curtis began his her The North American Indian ar tury, attracting the attention, in powerful men such as J. Pierpo Roosevelt, and Edward Harnim the twenticth and final volume rwo-years old, half-crippled froi in debt, and out of a job. But di project he took 40,000 photogra supervised 16 others, collected tional Indian tales, and made Indian speech and music—a stagi Curtis's photographs have romance of the old West and the Indian. But as familiar as these im written about Curtis's life and sul n this first comprehensive biogr ary man, Barbara Davis explore cident and design that shaped h oto historian Beaumont Ne preciation of Curtis's imag sected ethnologist and curator morial Washington State M emporary relevance of Curtis ver two hundred photograp ook, including many previou 1, goldtone, platinum, silver hs. Images from Tixe Norti uced from prints specially Curtis's original copperpla tic works are reproduced nd there are sixteen pag s of his portrait studio w • Harriman Expedition lollywood as a still phor re featured. S. Curtis: The Life and surprising and rich por tributions to the hist graphy, and ethnograp By Barbara A. Davis An Appreciation by Beaumont Newhall Foreword by Bill Holm Chronicle Books