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Captured: North American Indian Photographs by Edward Curtis (Late 1890's)


13 years 3 months ago #16074 by Karl Wertanen
Excerpt from the Article posted below....

"In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 to document North American Indians. The benefactor, J.P Morgan, was to receive 25 sets of the completed series of 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs entitled The North American Indian. Curtis set out to photograph the North American Indian way of life at a time when Native Americans were being forced from their land and stripped of their rights. Curtis’ photographs depicted a romantic version of the culture which ran contrary to the popular view of Native Americans as savages.

Born in 1868 in Wisconsin, Curtis moved with his father to the Washington territory in 1887 where he began working at a photography studio in the frontier city of Seattle. Curtis began work on his series in 1895 by photographing Princess Angeline, the daughter of Chief Sealth and published the first volume of The North American Indian in 1907. The last volume wasn’t published until 1930. In more than three decades of work documenting Native Americans, Curtis traveled from the Great Plains to the mountainous west, and from the Mexican border to western Canada to the Arctic Ocean in Alaska.

Below are selected images of the Native American way of life chosen from The Library of Congress’s Edward S. Curtis Collection. Some were published in The North American Indian but most were not published. All the captions are original to Edward Curtis."




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13 years 3 months ago #16078 by Scotty
Priceless photos, wouldn't even want to restore those. What a treasure...I hope they try to preserve these.
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13 years 3 months ago #16097 by Gammill

Scotty wrote: Priceless photos, wouldn't even want to restore those. What a treasure...I hope they try to preserve these.


I agree, keeping them the way there are is half the story. These are just incredible, priceless.
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13 years 3 months ago #16106 by Village Clown
Remarkable! Good post
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13 years 3 months ago #16147 by photobod
I have bookmarked the page as I just love looking at old photographs, what an era to have lived in magical
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13 years 3 months ago #16192 by ShadowWalker

photobod wrote: I have bookmarked the page as I just love looking at old photographs, what an era to have lived in magical


LOL I did the same thing, the history and just the fact of how old these photos are, I find remarkable.
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13 years 3 months ago #16228 by Moossmann
2 Thumbs up
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13 years 3 months ago #16240 by Alex
These photos were amazing Karl, thanks for posting this!
Thank you for making PhotographyTalk.com your photography community of choice.
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13 years 3 months ago #16245 by McBeth Photography
What an awesome collection, there are some very challenging situations in this gallery, a testimony to Edward Curtis' talent and skill. I'm very certain that he didn't have 3D matrix metering, autofocus, iTTL, D-lighting or RAW format to get just the right look. We can learn a lot as photographers today by looking at these photos from yesterday.
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13 years 3 months ago - 13 years 3 months ago #16272 by Karl Wertanen
#'s 1, 5, 24, 62, 63 are mt favorites.
24, 62, 63 are amazing!
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13 years 3 months ago #16307 by Richard K Photography

Scotty wrote: Priceless photos, wouldn't even want to restore those. What a treasure...I hope they try to preserve these.


200% agree. How cool are these. I wouldn't touch them, frame them and place them in a museum.
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