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Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

byTimothy Egan

Timothy Egan recounts the life of photographer Edward Curtis, who spent decades attempting to document Native peoples across North America. Curtis sacrificed money, health, and family stability to produce thousands of images and the monumental North American Indian series. The biography celebrates his endurance and artistry while confronting staged scenes, romantic assumptions, and a project shaped by the belief that Indigenous cultures were vanishing. Egan places Curtis within a complicated history of preservation and appropriation, asking how photographs can carry beauty, bias, evidence, and influence long after their maker is gone.

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Publication date

2013

Format

Print edition

Pages

384

ISBN

9780544102767