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1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
"Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Published between 1907 and 1930 as a series of twenty volumes and portfolios, the work contains more than two thousand photographs intended to document the traditional culture of every Native American tribe west of the Mississippi. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples as a "vanishing race," hiding both their engagement with modernity and the history of colonial violence. But in this major reappraisal of Curtis's work, Shamoon Zamir argues instead that Curtis's photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies. This crisis is captured profoundly, and with remarkable empathy, in Curtis's images of the human face. Zamir also contends that we can fully understand this achievement only if we think of Curtis's Native subjects as coauthors of his project. This radical reassessment is presented as a series of close readings that explore the relationship of aesthetics and ethics in photography. Zamir's richly illustrated study resituates Curtis's work in Native American studies and in the histories of photography and visual anthropology."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Portfolio -- PART I: Introduction -- 1 Photography, Portraiture, and Time -- 2 A Third Something: Image and Text -- PART II: Time and History -- 3 The Gift of the Face -- 4 Against History's Monopoly of Time -- 5 Achieving Portraiture -- PART III: Autography -- 6 The Crow and Photography -- 7 Upshaw and Upshaw-Apsaroke -- 8 Portraits as Self-Portraits of the Artist -- PART IV: Art Science -- 9 A Broad and Luminous Picture -- 10 A People of the Twentieth Century: Coda -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. North American Indian.
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Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952. North American Indian. |
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North American Indian (Curtis, Edward S.) |
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Indians of North America -- 20th century -- Portraits -- History.
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Indians of North America. |
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20th century |
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Portraits. |
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History. |
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Photography in ethnology -- North America.
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Photography in ethnology. |
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North America. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Portraits.
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Portraits.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zamir, Shamoon. Gift of the face 9781469611754 (DLC) 2014002679 (OCoLC)860943925 |
| ISBN |
9781469611761 (electronic book) |
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1469611767 (electronic book) |
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9781469615653 (electronic book) |
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1469615657 (electronic book) |
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9781469611754 |
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1469611759 |
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