<DIV><B>In 1906, J. P. Morgan commissioned Edward S. Curtis to produce a series of books depicting Native American life. <I>Edward S. Curtis Portraits </I>contains over 250 of the project’s beautiful and haunting portraits.</B><BR/><BR/>“In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures, not merely photographs.” —President Theodore Roosevelt<BR/><BR/> Talented photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis set out on the project with the goal of becoming a successful portrait artist, but as he worked taking photographs of the “vanishing Indian,” he discovered a calling as an ethnographer and embarked on <B>a mission to document every aspect of traditional Native American culture</B> before it disappeared forever. He considered the loss of Native American traditions a national tragedy and sacrificed his financial security, marriage, and even his health to pursue his mission.<BR/><BR/> Curtis’s <B>highly expressiv
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In search of a lost time: The complete portfolios by Edward S. Curtis on Native Americans At the turn of the 20th century, the American photographerEdward Sheriff Curtis(1868 1952) started on his 30-year project to produce a monumental study of North...
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