The Image Taker: The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis [Paperback]

Gerald Hausman (Editor), Bob Kapoun (Editor), Joe Medicine Crow (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 16, 2009 | ISBN-10: 1933316705 | ISBN-13: 978-1933316703

The work of Edward Curtis captures forever the images, myths, and histories of a vanishing age. The Image Taker features essential selections of photographs and the seldom- seen tribal stories recorded and preserved by Curtis in his 20-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian, offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.

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“The Image Taker presents a treasured sampling of text and photographs from over 30 years of Curtis' work as a documentarian of Native American history. It is an invaluable resource to both scholars and those interested in Native American cultural enrichment studies and heritage.” --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: World Wisdom (May 16, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933316705
• ISBN-13: 978-1933316703
• Product Dimensions: 3.1 x 2.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #571,511 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photographs and stories of over 80 native American tribes and sub-tribes west of the Misssissippi River, July 10, 2009

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This review is from: The Image Taker: The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis (Paperback)

Featuring an informative foreword by Joe Medicine Crow, "The Image Taker: Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis" is a visually impressive 177-page paperback edition of the pictures, stories and lore of many North American Native American tribes. Divided into areas including the Southwest, Plains, Plateau, Northwest Coast, and Northernmost Coast, chapters cover hundreds of sepia photographs of Native American subjects taken between 1895 and 1926. Review continued of "The Image Taker"

Photographs and stories of over 80 native American tribes and sub-tribes west of the Misssissippi River are presented. The stories are taken from Curtis' monolithic, 20 volume work, "The North American Indian," with 20 accompanying portfolios. One important fact to note about "The Image Taker" is that the photographs chosen for it were frequently not previously chosen for publication because they were in bound volumes that were difficult to reproduce. So here we have essentially fresh photographs of high artistic and historic quality and value re-presented with edited text from a classic encyclopedia of tribal history, lore, mythology, and stories. Additional helpful information is presented in a two page chronology of the life of Edward Curtis, plus sources and notes (from "The North American Indian") of the twelve main chapter areas, and an added bibliography.

"The Image Taker" presents a treasured sampling of text and photographs from over 30 years of Curtis' work as a documentarian of Native American history. It is an invaluable resource to both scholars and those interested in Native American cultural enrichment studies and heritage.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful Words and Images, December 11, 2009

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J. Williams "J. E. Williams, OMD" (Sarasota, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Image Taker: The Selected Stories and Photographs of Edward S. Curtis (Paperback)

This is a masterful work and not only for the Curtis images, but for the prose, layout, and content. In classic Hausman style, one of the editors, it captures the American native spirit as it is: true, clear, total human, and creatively brilliant.