Short nights of the Shadow Catcher [electronic resource] : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan.
Egan, Timothy.
2012
TR140.C82 E43 2012eb
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Title Short nights of the Shadow Catcher [electronic resource] : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan.
Author Egan, Timothy.
ISBN 9780547840604 (electronic bk.)
9780618969029
Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (370 p.) : ill.
Call Number TR140.C82 E43 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 770.92
Summary "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. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. Even with the backing 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. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes. But the charming rogue with the grade-school education had fulfilled his promise--his great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-350) and index.
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Awards Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, 2013.
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