Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Egan, Timothy

ISBN 10: 0618969020 / ISBN 13: 9780618969029

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0618969020
• ISBN 13: 9780618969029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer€”the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan€™s book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance€”six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his t

About the Author

TIMOTHY EGAN is a national enterprise reporter for the New York Times. He is the author of five books and the recipient of several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in Seattle, Washington.