Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated

Name: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated
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ISBN: 9780521775731

ISBN-10: 0521775736

ISBN-13: 9780521775731

Edition: 2000

Authors: Mick Gidley, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock

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For three decades 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. While not necessarily unique, the project was bigger, better funded, and more famous than any of its time, and its images still retain their influence today. Neither a eulogy to Curtis's achievement nor a debunking of it, this book is an…

Book details

List price: $50.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




Introductory



A national undertaking



Co-ordinates for a Project



Cracker Jack pictures



Trading with the Indians



Hustling the eminent



Diffident ethnology



Indians Incorporated



Adventure in the field



'The vanishing race' in sight and sound



Bronze in action



Representing the Indian