02919cam a2200337 4500 522662447 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780547840604 0547840608 B006R8PH4I Amazon 2696bce5-2bd2-469e-b9dc-873c337198d3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1044682 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher [Libby] : The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. HMH Books, 2012. United States. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 15MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p><b>A New York Times Notable BookA Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction<i>New York Times</i> bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in <i>Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis.</i></b> "A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life."??—??The Washington PostEdward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. 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. It took tremendous perseverance ??—?? ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Notable Books for Adults. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/short-nights-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/short-nights-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/short-nights-of?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)