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 honest study of the project as a collective whole: what it was, who was involved, and what it meant.
| ISBN: | 9780521775731 |
| Publication date: | 13th February 2000 |
| Author: | Mick Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds Gidley |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 344 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Photographs: collections |
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 honest study of the project as a collective whole: what it was, who was involved, and what it meant.
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated features in the following genres: Literary studies: general, Photographs: collections
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated is available in Paperback
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated was written by Mick Emeritus Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Leeds Gidley and published by Cambridge University Press
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated has 344 pages
Yes it is part of Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture series
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