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Edward Curtis: Portrait of Prolific Photographer

Year

2012

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

7m 45s

Publication Information

NewsHour Productions

Summary

Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography about Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.

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