Award winning photograph Sundance
EDWARD S. CURTIS
Native American Photographer
• Lived from February 16, 1868 to October 19, 1952
• Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin and Died in Whittier, California
• Photographed the American West and Native American people
• Part of a family of five who moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota in 1874
• Because of the move Curtis dropped out of school in the 6th grade
• He then worked to build his own camera
• In 1880 Curtis was working as a retail grocer in Cordova Township, Minnesota
• At the age of 17 Curtis became an apprentice photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota
• 1887 the Curtis family moved to Seattle Washington here Edward purchased a camera
• From there he became a partner with Rasmus Rothi who had a studio.
• Edward Curtis then payed 150 dollars to have 50% ownership in the studio.
• 6 months later he left Rothi to make a new partnership with Thomas Guptill
• They opened a studio call Curtis and Guptill, Photographers and Photoengravers
• 1892 Edward and Clara J. Philips got married
• They had four children
• 1896 Edward his wife and children moved to a new home and welcomed Edwards mother, Edwards brother and Clara’s two sisters and one of their sons.
• 1895 Curtis photographed Princess Angeline and Chief Sealth of Seattle
• Chief Sealth was his first Native American portrait
• 1898 he photographed Mt.Rainier and ran into some scientists in particular George Bird Grinnell a Native American expert.
• 1899 Grinnell and Curtis were invited on a Harriman Alaska Expedition which was very famous
• Grinnel then became extremely interested in Curtis’s work and invited him to go on an expedition of the Blackfeet Indians in Montana to photograph in 1900
• 1906 Curtis was offered 75,000 dollars from J.P. Morgan to Produce a series of the North American Indian.
• It consisted of 20 volumes that held 1,500 photographs
• Curtis gave Morgan 25 sets and 500 original prints as a repayment
• Overall 222 complete sets were published
• Curtis was not then just interested in photography of the Indians, but to document their way of living
• 1907 he wrote an introduction for this documentation and began gathering information
• Curtis constructed over 10,000 wax cylinders recording indian language and music
• Over 40,000 photographic images were taken of over 80 tribes
• All of his information from his documentaries on the Indians are basically the only recorded history of them
• Born in Whitewater, Wisconsin and Died in Whittier, California
• Photographed the American West and Native American people
• Part of a family of five who moved from Wisconsin to Minnesota in 1874
• Because of the move Curtis dropped out of school in the 6th grade
• He then worked to build his own camera
• In 1880 Curtis was working as a retail grocer in Cordova Township, Minnesota
• At the age of 17 Curtis became an apprentice photographer in St. Paul, Minnesota
• 1887 the Curtis family moved to Seattle Washington here Edward purchased a camera
• From there he became a partner with Rasmus Rothi who had a studio.
• Edward Curtis then payed 150 dollars to have 50% ownership in the studio.
• 6 months later he left Rothi to make a new partnership with Thomas Guptill
• They opened a studio call Curtis and Guptill, Photographers and Photoengravers
• 1892 Edward and Clara J. Philips got married
• They had four children
• 1896 Edward his wife and children moved to a new home and welcomed Edwards mother, Edwards brother and Clara’s two sisters and one of their sons.
• 1895 Curtis photographed Princess Angeline and Chief Sealth of Seattle
• Chief Sealth was his first Native American portrait
• 1898 he photographed Mt.Rainier and ran into some scientists in particular George Bird Grinnell a Native American expert.
• 1899 Grinnell and Curtis were invited on a Harriman Alaska Expedition which was very famous
• Grinnel then became extremely interested in Curtis’s work and invited him to go on an expedition of the Blackfeet Indians in Montana to photograph in 1900
• 1906 Curtis was offered 75,000 dollars from J.P. Morgan to Produce a series of the North American Indian.
• It consisted of 20 volumes that held 1,500 photographs
• Curtis gave Morgan 25 sets and 500 original prints as a repayment
• Overall 222 complete sets were published
• Curtis was not then just interested in photography of the Indians, but to document their way of living
• 1907 he wrote an introduction for this documentation and began gathering information
• Curtis constructed over 10,000 wax cylinders recording indian language and music
• Over 40,000 photographic images were taken of over 80 tribes
• All of his information from his documentaries on the Indians are basically the only recorded history of them
slide show of his portraits
slide show of Sundance::Tells story behind the photography
Video of his project::The American Indians::Very Interesting
I have been looking at Jim Zuckerman's photography:: It is all very breathtaking, I find that he always had very vibrant colors in his photographs. I like them because of how vibrant they are, but they all seem so simple yet amazingly interesting. It was hard to choose favorites, but here is a site you can view his photographs at.
Zuckerman's Photography
I wonder if you would mind leaving the text white - the purple gets sort of hard to read on a dark gray background. However - great post - I didn't realize Curtis was raised in Minnesota.
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