Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis [#187076]

Timothy Egan, "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis"
English | 2012 | pages: 370 | ISBN: 0618969020 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
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 beforeit disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan€™s book tells the remarkable untold story behindCurtis'siconic photographs, followinghim throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with thebacking 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.