Edward and Asahel Curtis and Western American Photographers
View “Different Lenses: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis” TR652.D54 1996 [VHS].
-North American Indian : being a series of volumes picturing and describing the Indians of the United States, and Alaska / written, illustrated, and published by Edward S. Curtis ; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge ; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt ; field res Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. 1907 E77 .C97
– Optional: The Shadow catcher, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian produced and directed by T.C. McLuhan
TR140.C87 1993 [VHS]
– Please answer those questions :
1. How did Asahel Curtis make his living as a photographer?
2. What was Edward Curtis’s obsession?
3. What was realistic about the photography of both Edward and Asahel Curtis? Compare them.
4. How did art characterize their approaches to photography?
5. Compare the 2.
6. Discuss a photo by each brother.
7. Have a look at the Library’s copy of Curtis’ North American Indian. Choose an additional image from this multi-volume to discuss. Discuss it both as a work of art and as an ethnographic record.
8. Find another pioneering Western photographer. Why is that photographer noteworthy? Discuss a photograph by that photographer.
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