North American Indians - Hardcover

Curtis, Edward S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3822880868 ISBN 13: 9783822880869

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 1997

Synopsis

Between 1896 and 1930, Edward S. Curtis documented Native Americans and their way of life in the western United States and British Columbia. His efforts resulted in a twenty-volume visual record accompanied by text—a document unequaled in the history of photography.

Sixty-eight photographs from the original collection have been selected for this Aperture book; the result is a compilation of Curtis’s best-known images documenting the Native American way of life, molded by rich traditional values centered on nature and the universe.

About this title

From the Publisher

Introduction by Joseph Epes Brown.

A new edition of an Aperture Classic.

From 1896 to 1930, Edward S. Curtis traveled throughout the United States, making a vivid record of the Native American peoples and their way of life. He became, after a long immersion in the cultures and traditions of the Native Americans, an adopted son of Black Elk. The North American Indians, as the project was named, comprised twenty volumes of text each accompanied by a portfolio of plates. It is a visual record unequaled in the history of photography.

Many of the most significant photographs have been selected for this Aperture book. These remarkable images of the Native American people and their homes, villages, and landscape reveal how their lives were molded by the integrity of nature and by the rich traditional values of their culture.

Edward S. Curtis was born in 1869 near Whitewater, Wisconsin. He became a photographer for the Edward H. Harriman expedition to Alaska in 1899 and many of his images were published by the Smithsonian Institution.

About the Author

Edward S. Curtis was born in 1869 near Whitewater, Wisconsin. He became a photographer for the Edward H. Harriman expedition to Alaska in 1899 and many of his images were published by the Smithsonian Institution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3822880868
• ISBN 13: 9783822880869
• Binding: Card Book
• Number of pages: 30