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Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

American, 1868-1952
Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture. His life's work was to record the faces and lifestyles of the Indians before they vanished forever beneath the settling of the continent by the white man. He photographed his subjects from the deserts of the Southwest to the ice floes of the Arctic, recording with his camera and pen the look and the culture of more than eighty tribes. It was an achievement both poignant and monumental.
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Artist: Edward Curtis
Chief of the Desert
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and dated in pen on recto, Vintage platinum print image- 7 7/8 x 5 7/8", paper- 12 1/2 x 11", mat- 20 x 16"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume
By Edward Curtis
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Signed and labeled on recto. Vintage platinum print Image 4.5 x 5.75", Mount 5 x 7.25", Mat 16 x 20"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on recto. Vintage platinum print Image 5.75 x 7.5", Mount 6 x 8", Mat 16 x 20"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Aged Pomo Woman [Plate 488]
By Edward Curtis
Located in New York, NY
This photogravure is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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1920s Other Art Style Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Photogravure

The Apache
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on recto Platinum Print Image - 16.25 x 12.25
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

Zuni Governor, 1900
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
negative number "110-00" in plate lower left Platinum print Image 16" x 12", Matted 24" x 20"
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

The Piki Maker, Hopi
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto Vintage platinum print 13 1/4 x 10 inches
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Black and White Photography

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Platinum

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