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15 kwi 2016 · Film-maker Paul Ratner developed a passion for researching old photographs of indigenous people while making "Moses on the Mesa", a film about a German-Jewish immigrant who fell in love with a Native-American woman and became governor of her tribe of Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico in the late 1800s.
8 kwi 2013 · In the early 1900s, Seattle-based photographer Edward S. Curtis embarked on a project of epic scale, to travel the western United States and document the lives of Native Americans still...
30 lis 2018 · The photographs command respect for a group of people that had been marginalized over the span of the 19th century. But the work has also been met with criticism.
21 mar 2012 · With a trail wagon and assistants traveling ahead to arrange visits, Edward Curtis set out on a journey that would see him photograph the most important Native Americans of the time, including...
25 lis 2021 · Edward Curtis' portraits documented Native American culture in the early 1900s — as reservations and assimilation threatened to destroy it forever. The Klamath tribes, which now include the Modoc and the Yahooskin people, didn't encounter a white person until 1826, when a fur trapper wandered into their territory.
Photography by indigenous peoples of the Americas is an art form that began in the late 19th century and has expanded in the 21st century, including digital photography, underwater photography, and a wide range of alternative processes.
22 lis 2024 · Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time. She published a book of...
