A Corner of Zuni
Edward S. Curtis
1903
Medium
Photogravure on vellum, from "The North American Indian"
Dimensions
Image: 29.1 × 39.5 cm (11 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.); Paper: 33.7 × 42.1 cm (13 5/16 × 16 5/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45218
About the Artist
Edward S. Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was an American photographer and ethnographer whose monumental project "The North American Indian" — a forty-volume illustrated work documenting over eighty Native American tribes — is one of the most ambitious photographic enterprises ever undertaken. Born near Whitewater, Wisconsin, he grew up in Minnesota and established a portrait studio in Seattle, Washington, in ...