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Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis

"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 before it disappeared. A...

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Main Author: Egan, Timothy.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Subjects and Genres:
Curtis, Edward S., > 1868-1952.
Photographers > United States > Biography.
Indians of North America > History.
Documentary photography > United States > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • First picture
  • Encounter on a volcano
  • The Big Idea
  • Indian Napoleon
  • With the President
  • In the den of the titan
  • Anglos in Indian country
  • The artist and his audience
  • The Custer conundrum
  • The most remarkable man
  • On the river of the West
  • New art forms
  • Moving pictures
  • Lost days
  • Second wind
  • The longest days
  • Fight to the finish
  • Twilight
  • Revival.

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