(Download Book) Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Writen By Timothy Egan
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
By : Timothy Egan
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A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. ?A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan?s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.??????The Washington Post Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent?s original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and
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Author : Timothy Egan
Pages : 384 pages
Publisher : Mariner Books
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ISBN-10 : 0544102762
ISBN-13 : 9780544102767
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