Edward S. Curtis: Visions of the First Americans
- ISBN-10
- 1905573219
- ISBN-13
- 9781905573219
- Series
- Edward S. Curtis
- Category
- Indians of North America
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-12-01
- Publisher
- Compendium Books
- Author
- Don Gulbrandsen
Description
Edward Sheriff Curtis is regarded today as one of the great American pioneer photographers. His iconic twenty-volume work The North American Indian took him thirty years to complete (between 1907 and 1930) and cost him his marriage and his health. But it left us with the most complete visual record of Native Americans from the Inuit of the far north to the Hopi people of the southwest. This new book is a tribute to the photographer, his work, and the life of the Native Americans that he photographed. As Don Gulbrandsen writes in his introductory essay: "The faces stare out at you, images seemingly from an ancient time and from a faraway place. As you gaze at the faces, the humanity becomes apparent, lives filled with dignity but also sadness and loss, representatives of a world that has all but disappeared from our planet."
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