EDWARD S. CURTIS - LES INDIENS DAMERIQUE DU NORD

Reference

Curtis, Edward S.

Simone Philippi ed.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

TASCHEN

The most important images from our photo series volume of Edward S. Curtis' work have been included in this wonderful new (and compact) homage to the great photographer.

Native Americans (TASCHEN Icons Series)

Arts & Photography

Malcom Green

Catherine Henry

Edward Curtis

Photography & Video

For over thirty years, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) traveled the length 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 encyclopedia ""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 molded our conception of Native Americans. 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.

Edward S. Curtis

Adam, Hans-Christian

In this dossier, Curtis provides a pictorial record of more than 80 American Indian tribes, their traditions and customs. His photographs are testimonials to a lost culture.

The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios

History

Curtis, Edward Sheriff

Americas

A unique pictorial record of more than 80 American Indian tribes At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. 
With tireless personal commitment Curtis visited American Indian tribes from the Mexican border to the Bering Straits, gaining their confidence by his patience and sensitivity. This, his photographic life’s work, was printed in 20 volumes between 1907 and 1930 as The North American Indian. There were only 272 copies in total, so original copies are now extremely rare. This book gives lasting life to Curtis’s great achievements by making the photographs available again.

The North American Indian

For the first time, Tony Vaccaro's photos documenting World War II and its aftermath in Germany are presented together in one book. Vaccaro's story is unique: he was born in Pennsylvania, USA of Italian parents but spent most of his childhood under the fascist regime in Italy. He returned to the United States to finish high school, where he developed a passion for photography. Drafted into the army in 1944, Vaccaro was forced to return to Europe. He went armed with a gun and a camera. He came back, in 1949, with one of the most comprehensive photographic diaries by a serviceman in any war. 
Vaccaro's relationship with photography was never casual. It was with great vigor that he studied photography during high school (the techniques he carefully memorized would later help him to mix chemicals on the battlefield and develop film in army helmets) and his early enthusiasm continued even when he was in danger of losing his life to Hitler's army. 
This new book presents Vaccaro's most impressive images (including the famous "White Death" depicting a dead soldier nearly covered with snow), tracing his journey from the invasion in Normandy to the battles eastward past the Elbe river in Germany, through the aftermath of the war up until 1949. Vaccaro's fascinating autobiographical text, written specifically for this publication, gives important clues to his point of view as a photographer. His goal was to make a record of the war and the subsequent rebuilding of war-torn Germany so that future generations could see what it had been like, but his images are more than documentary photographs; they are a stunning visual diary of one man's experience of war and its disastrous effects.

Entering Germany: 1944-1949

Vaccaro, Tony

Curtis's massive photographic projects document all aspects of life, landscapes, and society of Native Americans, from 1895 to 1930. 180 illustrations.

Individual Artists

CURTIS / INDIANS SC

A pictorial record of more than 80 American Indian tribes, their traditions and customs. The photographs are accompanied by a selection of Curtis's texts.

A collection of images paying homage to the great photographer.

Edward S. Curtis: Native America

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EDWARD S. CURTIS - LES INDIENS DAMERIQUE DU NORD

Native Americans (TASCHEN Icons Series)

Edward S. Curtis

The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios

The North American Indian

Entering Germany: 1944-1949

Edward S. Curtis

CURTIS / INDIANS SC

The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios

Edward S. Curtis: Native America