Historic Photography by Edward Curtis (1868 - 1952)
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS became one of America’s finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture. Read More on Edward Curtis...
'THE VANISHING RACE - NAVAHO' -- The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn of their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work, the author has chosen it as the first of the series. (";The North American Indian";, being a series of 20 volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States and Alaska, written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis.)
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Photograph on Japanese Vellum Paper
- 8 1/16"x 5 7/8"
- c.1903
- $1,500
- #3957
