Verfasser:
Scherer, Joanna Cohan
Verfasser Angabe:
Joanna Cohan Scherer
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Phaidon
Erscheinungsort:
Berlin
Jahr:
2008
Umfang:
127 S. : überw. Ill.
ISBN:
978-0-7148-4176-2
Inhalt:
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) is one of the earliest successful portrait photographers, well-known for his remarkable archive of prints documenting the Native American people and their way of life in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century. This book is the best available introductory monograph to Curtis's work featuring a series of 55 chronologically organised images from the range of Curtis's body of work including his iconic and mesmerising images of Native American chiefs, pictures of men hunting and women at work on traditional crafts, beautiful American West landscapes, and classic examples of the studio portraits that were more typical of the Pictorialist photography of the period