Summer Reading Clubs start on June 8th. Read for fun and prizes. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than
… More »At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Edward Curtis's iconic photographs, following him throughout Indian country from desert to rainforest as he struggled to document the stories and rituals of more than eighty tribes. His great adventure succeeded in creating one of America's most stunning cultural achievements.
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Authors:
Egan, Timothy
Statement of Responsibility:
Timothy Egan
Title:
Short nights of the shadow catcher
the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis
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Boston, MA :, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,, 2012.
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370 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm.
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Add a CommentA fine story by a fine writer-story telling Timothy Egan about photographer Edward Sherriff Curtis’s photographic story telling about the native people the original owners of this lands and the loss of their nations. With population of over 10 million roaming all over this lands in 1492 reaching the end of their era when only 237000 was what left of them out of US population of 76 million of new comers according the Censes of 1900. This is the year when Curtis “The Shadow Catcher” started his struggle in pursue of his great idea to tell the story of what was left of the natives of this land for all the times ever coming in the future to be told with his photographs. Timothy Egan writing about Edward Curtis’s epic life story carries the reader finely through a problematic nebulous concoction of consternation he was facing in pursue of his great idea with a performance matching his promise. Edward Sherriff Curtis chose the companionship with the holy and they made him one. Your time with this book is worth as much as cup of life itself.
Now that I've finished reading this book, all my other reading seems boring. This book was really enjoyable. Readers who have lived in the American west, especially anyone who has lived in Seattle, would be glad they read it.
Tim Egan is a wonderful speaker - if you get a chance to hear him, drop everything and go.