The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Nebraska Pr
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The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great PlainsLakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among othersare recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (18681952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because of his monumental work,The North American Indian(19071930), which consists of twenty portfolios of large photogravures and twenty volumes of text on more than eighty Indian groups in the West. He took pictures of Plains Indians for over twenty years, and his photographs reflect both prevailing attitudes about Indians and Curtis's own vision of differences among the Native peoples whom he photographed. Curtis's photographs have exerted an enduring influenceboth positive and negativeon mainstream American culture. They have inspired countless books, articles, and photographic exhibitions, and they continue to appear on posters, postcards, and other souvenirs. Accompanying the remarkable array of images in this book are essays by leading scholars that place the photographs within their proper critical, cultural, and historical contexts. The scholars contributing to this work are Martha H. Kennedy, Martha A. Sandweiss, Mick Gidley, and Duane Niatum.

Table of Contents

List of Photographsp. vii
Introductionp. 1
Picturing Indians: Curtis in Contextp. 13
Ways of Seeing the Curtis Project on the Plainsp. 39
The Aesthetic Impulses of Edward S. Curtis's Images of the Great Plains Indiansp. 67
The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtisp. 83
Note on the Captionsp. 83
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