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Edward S. Curtis was the greatest photographer of Native Americans that
this country has ever produced. Curtis photographed more than eighty
Native American tribes at what for many was the penultimate moment of
their existence in a period spanning more than three decades. Seen in
Curtis's photographs, these are peoples of free-reining spirit set in
the vastness of a primal continent. Included are a selection of
Curtis's master prints, which have never been seen before, and other
prints that comprised Curtis's last great exhibition, mounted in 1906
at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. Donated to the Peabody Essex
Museum in 1906, these prints have never been exhibited since. This
selection of photographs, which survive intact from almost one hundred
years ago, proves that Curtis was not only a great photographer but
also one of the most important artists ever produced in America. With
this book, accompanied by a radical reappraisal of Curtis's work and
place in American art by photographic historian Clark Worswick, Edward
Curtis joins the ranks of John James Audubon, whose works on a uniquely
American natural history subject admit no contemporary comparison.