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The 150th Anniversary of Edward Curtis: 150 Masterpieces from The North American Indian [PDF]
Curtis Census
The purpose of this census is to determine an accurate number of bound sets and volumes of the original edition of The North American Indian. Published by Edward Curtis from 1907 to 1930, The North American Indian was planned to be a limited edition of 500 sets. Due to the extremely high cost of the publication and the prolonged publication cycle, it’s thought that no more than 300 complete or partial sets were finally printed. This census will determine, as accurately as possible, the actual number of complete or partial sets that were printed and their present locations. The website also includes research resources. Curtis Census: A Census of the Edward Curtis Masterpiece, The North American Indian
Northwestern University Digital Library Collections
Northwestern University digitized the complete contents of all 20 volumes of The North American Indian, including all 723 portfolio photogravures. View all the photographic plates from Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian online.
Library of Congress Curtis Collection
The Library of Congress Curtis Collection is also a valuable resource.
Press Release
The 150th Anniversary of Edward Curtis: 150 Masterpieces from The North American Indian
Bibliography
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—— . Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Bullfinch Press, 2005
—— . Edward S. Curtis: One Hundred Masterworks, Delmonico Books, 2015
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Mick Gidley, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated, Cambridge University Press, 1998
——. The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis, University of Nebraska Press, 2001
——. Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003
Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Edward Sheriff: Visions of a Vanishing Race, Promontory Press, 1976
George Bird Grinnell, The Harriman Expedition: Encountering the Tlingit and Eskimo in 1899, University of Alaska Press, 2007
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Johanna Cohan Scherer, Edward S. Curtis, Phaidon Press, 2008
Dan and Mary Soloman, Sites and Structures: The Architectural Photographs of Edward S. Curtis, Chronicle Books, 2000
Steadman Upham and Nat Zappia, The Many Faces of Edward Sheriff Curtis: Portraits and Stories from Native North America, University of Washington Press, 2006
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Carl Worswick, Edward Curtis: The Master Prints, Arena Editions, 2001
Wayne L. Youngblood, Edward S. Curtis Portraits: The Many Faces of the Native American, Fall River Press, 2009
Shamoon Zamir, The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian, University of North Carolina Press, 2014
Suggested Further Reading
Jane Alison (editor), Native Nations: Journeys in American Photography, Barbican Art Gallery, 1998
Will Baker, Backward: On Indians, Time, And Photography, North Atlantic Books, 1983
Chris Bruce, Myth of the West, Rizzoli International, 1990
Joanna Cohen, The Great Photographs that Reveal North American Indian Life, 1847-1929: From the Smithsonian Institution, Crown Publishers, 1973
Paula Richardson Fleming and Judith Lusky, The North American Indians in Early Photographs, Barnes and Noble Books, 1986
William H. and William N. Goetzmann, The West of the Imagination, W. W. Norton, 1986
Peter B. Hales, William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape, Temple University Press, 1988
Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West, W. W. Norton, 1987
Lucy R. Lippard (editor), Partial Recall: Photographs of Native North Americans, The New Press, 1992
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Douglas R. Nickel, Carlton Watkins: The Art of Perception, Harry N. Abrams, 1999
Sally Price, Primitive Art in Civilized Places, University of Chicago Press, 1989
Martha A. Sandweiss, Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, Yale University Press, 2002