Edward Sheriff Curtis

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), is the best known for his spectacular documentary record of the Native American tribes in the first decades of the twentieh century. His portrayal of their ceremonies and daily work, mesmerizing close-up portraits, and majectic landscapes of the American West were intended to serve as an anthropological resource for a "vanishing race". However, Curtis´s true success lies in his powerful collection of faces, time and place, and in photographs marked by their dramatic lighting, sensitivity and beauty.