Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated

ISBN-13: 9780521775731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 344 str.

Mick Gidley

Opis

From the 1890s onward, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of photographs; the project was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and funded in part by J. Pierpont Morgan, and spawned exhibitions, postcards, magazine articles, lecture series, a "musicale," and the very first narrative documentary film. Neither a eulogy to Curtis' achievement nor a debunking of it, this book is an honest study of the project as a collective whole.

Recenzje

' … it is Gidley's achievement to have painstaking reconstructed the various contexts and influences that formed Curtis's enterprise as a complex whole. He has unearthed a treasure-trove of unpublished and previously unregarded material.' Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Spis treści

Part I. Introductory: 1. A national undertaking; Part II. Co-ordinates for a Project: 2. Cracker Jack pictures; 3. Trading with the Indians; 4. Hustling the eminent; 5. Diffident ethnology; Part III. Indians Incorporated: 6. Adventure in the field; 7. 'The vanishing race' in sight and sound; 8. Bronze in action; 9. Representing the Indian.