SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER
SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers.…
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SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER
"A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. Egan's spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life." --Washington PostEdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time.
It took tremendous perseverance--ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. 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 rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from
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