Customer Reviews

Curtis, Edward S.: Portraits of Native Americans 2009 Square Wall Calendar (Multilingual Edition)

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This offering does a great disservice to the photography of Edward Curtis. In earlier years I have made a point of buying calendars of his masterful, sensitive, and technically excellent images. They were printed from the large format (probably 8x10 inch) negatives held at the Library of Congress and reproduced superbly. Printed with the image was a little background on the photo, such as the tribe and some customs of the tribe. On the days of the calendar itself there were notes of important days in the history of the Native Americans.

This offering has very low quality reproductions of the originals. The cover photo of the woman with child is justly famous, but this edition is exceptionally poor. It is not possible to give less than 1 star, but I would if I could. I am still hoping to find another version of a calendar of Curtis' photos for this year.