The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis

By: Edward S. Curtis

Book Overview

The traditional cultures of the Indians of the Great Plains - Lakotas, Cheyennes, Wichitas, Arikaras, Crows, Osages, Assiniboins, Comanches, Crees, and Mandans, among others - are recalled in stunning detail in this collection of photographs by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). Curtis is the best-known photographer of Native Americans because of his monumental work, The North American Indian (1907-1930), which consists of 20 portfolios of large photogravures and 20 volumes of text on more than eighty Indian groups in the West. He took pictures of Plains Indians for over 20 years, and his photographs reflect both prevailing attitudes about Indians and Curtis's own vision of differences among the Native peoples whom he photographed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803215126
• ISBN13: 9780803215122
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 81 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 8.0"