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    Edward S. Curtis, by Adolph Muhr,

    Curtis on the Columbia River, c 
    Photographer unknown

    Edward S. Curtis, self-portait,

    Curtis standing next to a dead whale
    in British Columbia, c

    Edward S. Curtis had no idea how big of a mark he would be leaving when he started taking pictures of Indigenous People. With no more than six years of classroom education and no formal training in art, history, science or other academic disciplines, he became one of the 20th century's most famous photographers. Today he is remembered for his twenty-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, a publication so huge in scope and content that it took nearly three decades to complete.

    Curtis' camp on the Spokane Reservation, Washington,

    What's in a Name?

    In most books and articles about Curtis, his middle name is spelled "Sheriff" (like the law enforcement official). However, that's not the true family name. His midd

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    Curtis had established himself as Seattle’s foremost studio photographer by , and this success gave him a newfound level of financial freedom that allowed him to spend time away from the studio to pursue his love of the great outdoors. His trips to photograph the area’s spectacular mountain and ocean scenery led him to encounter small pockets of American Indians who still maintained some vestiges of their traditional lifestyles. By this time, Curtis had begun exploring an interest that would ultimately result in the most comprehensive photo–ethnographic record of the North America Indians ever created. By Curtis had begun receiving recognition from both the photographic community and the general public for his American Indian photographs. The same year, a chance event occurred that significantly altered the course of his life. While on one of his many mountaineering trips, Curtis rescued a lost party of climbers on Mount Rainier that included several prominent people nationally reco

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    Biography

    Born nära White vatten, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis taught han själv photography at a ung age. He moved to Seattle in the mids and developed a reputation for romantic Pictorialist landscapes and portraits. Although he made his first portrait of a Native American in , it was not until after his return from documenting an expedition in Alaska that Curtis became interested in a large-scale photoethnographic study of Native American culture. President Theodore Roosevelt saw Curtis's early Native American images and introduced the photographer to the banker J. P. Morgan, who agreed to commit $75, to support Curtis's completion and publication of his comprehensive study. The resulting twenty-volume work, The North American Indian, featuring some 1, photographs, appeared in installments between and Over the course of Curtis's career, he made more than 40, platinum prints, photogravures, and drawings of Native Americans across the United States and British Columbia. Curt