Curtis. Hans Christian Adam

For over thirty years the photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) travelled the lenght and breadth of North America, seeking to record in words and images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. Like a man possessed, he strove to realize his life´s work, which culminated in the publication of his encyclopaedia ´The North American Indian´. In the end this monumental work comprised twenty textual volumes and twenty portfolios with over 2000 illustrations. No other photographer has created a larger oeuvre on this theme, and it is Curtis, more than any other, who has crucially moulded conception of North America´s Indians. This book shows the photographer´s most impressive pictures and vividly details his journey through life, which led him not only into the prairies but also into the film studios of Hollywood. Autor: Hans Christian Adam Fecha: 2000 ISBN: 9783822866795 ISBN 10: 3822866792