Coming to Light: Coming to Light

by Anne Makepeace

Book Overview

Bold, sometimes abrasive, forever passionate, Edward Curtis was the quintessential romantic visionary. Curtis struggled through an impoverished boyhood in Minnesota to become a successful society photographer in Seattle. But he soon moved far beyond weddings and studio portraits to his lifes worka multi-volume photographic and ethnogrpahic work on the vanishing world of the North American Indian. Initially, Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan backed the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792241614
• ISBN13: 9780792241614
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: National Geographic Society
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.