Edward S. Curtis

by Barbara A. Davis and Edward S. Curtis

Book Overview

A detailed chronological biography of Edward Sheriff Curtis who was born on February 16, 1868 - near Whitewater, Wisconsin. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877013462
• ISBN13: 9780877013464
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Edward Curtis Captures a Vanishing People

Foreword by Bill Holm. Hardcover. 13 ½" x 10 ½" Limited to 10,000 copies. In this book, the most comprehensive biography of Edward S. Curtis published to date, Barbara Davis explores the multiple forces of accident and design that shaped Curtis' thinking and his art. Informative text lavishly illustrated with over two hundred photographs, including hand-tinted, goldtone, platinum, silver and cyanotype examples from throughout Curtis' career. This is a rare book with plates of all the best photos take over a 30 year period of heroic work that Curtis published. This 20 volume record of stories and photograuvres called on The North American Indian. An overview of his troubles and dedication have left us a goldmine of knowledge of the lost civilization of the American Indian tribes of the plains and west. What we lost as a developing white population and invasion is sad in black and white traces that Curtis captured in these images. It is an education in history, nature, short sighted progress, and beauty.