Edward S. Curtis spent 30 years documenting over 80 Native American tribes in the early 1900s. He published his photos in a 20-volume collection, "The North American Indian." The images have been ...

In 1895, photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis met a subject who would change ... He asked to photograph her, paying a dollar per photo—and set himself on a decades-long course to document American ...

By 1930, Edward Curtis had published, to barely any fanfare, the last of his planned 20-volume set of The North American Indian, after taking more than 40,000 pictures over 30 years. Yet he was ...

Titled “Edward S. Curtis: Unpublished Alaska, the Lost Photographs,” the show features recently discovered photo negatives taken during the photographer’s 1927 voyage to Alaska, displayed ...

The intimate, fragile photographs that make up "The Cultural Connections of Edward S ... taking their pictures, and documenting their humanity. “In [Curtis's] mind the tribes were vanishing ...

An early 1900s a photographer called Edward Curtis had a big idea: to capture on film the last remaining American-Indian tribes before they disappeared completely. Backed by President Theodore ...

Curtis's photos illuminate the depths of these women's personalities despite their stoic expressions. As Anne Makepeace writes in her introduction, ""some of the women seem to be asking him ...