Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan.
"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At onc...
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2012.
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Physical Description: | 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- First picture
- Encounter on a volcano
- The Big Idea
- Indian Napoleon
- With the President
- In the den of the titan
- Anglos in Indian country
- The artist and his audience
- The Custer conundrum
- The most remarkable man
- On the river of the West
- New art forms
- Moving pictures
- Lost days
- Second wind
- The longest days
- Fight to the finish
- Twilight
- Revival.