Watching the Dancers
Edward S. Curtis
1906
Medium
Photogravure, plate 405 from "The North American Indian, Volume 12" (1922)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 39 × 28.7 cm (15 3/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Mount: 55.5 × 45.5 cm (21 7/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49916
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 ...