Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Name: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Author: Timothy Egan
ISBN: 9780618969029

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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Timothy Egan

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Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.

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