The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

by Shamoon Zamir

Book Overview

Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469659115
• ISBN13: 9781469659114
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"