About the Author Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of eight books, most recently THE IMMORTAL IRISHMAN, a New York Times Bestseller. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes.
But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent’s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. HISTORY / Native American.Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy EganĮdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers. Documentary photography > United States > History. Photographers > United States > Biography. Search for related items by subject Subject:Ĭurtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. 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. He would die penniless and unknown in Hollywood just a few years after publishing the last of his twenty volumes.
The undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Morgan, it took tremendous perseverance-six years alone to convince the Hopi to allow him into their Snake Dance ceremony. Even with the backing of Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. 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. 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. passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer-the Annie Liebowitz of his time. "Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a.
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