![]() ![]() The direction of his photographic career took shape on a climb up Washington’s Mount Rainier. It was this latter project that brought him his fame, and also his financial woes. The book covers Curtis’ early childhood on the plains of Minnesota, his years of back-breaking work along Seattle’s harbors, his time as Seattle’s famous society photographer, and his interest and obsession with photographing the vanishing American Indian. In Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, author Timothy Egan delivers an insightful biography of this great American photographer. But for his life-long work (a 20-volume set depicting the North American Indian) he was never paid a dime. Morgan, and met and photographed the famous Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. ![]() ![]() He hobnobbed with the Seattle elite as a photographer of the rich and famous, he photographed the family of President Teddy Roosevelt, bargained with America’s richest man J.P. So when I picked up a new book about Edward Curtis (1869-1962) I was eager to learn what it had to say.Ĭurtis’ life was a Horatio Alger story in a way, with more of a rags-to-riches-to- rags twist. ![]() To improve and learn more about one’s own photography, I believe it’s important to learn about photographers who came before. In early American photographic history there were a handful of giants, including Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, and Edward Curtis. ![]()
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