Native American Portraits - Nancy Hathaway
photographs from the collection of Kurt Koegler
KORTE INHOUD
Over one hundred photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I are featured in this powerful compendium depicting a proud and defeated people. Native American Portraits presents a factual, anecdotal, and visual history of the evolving artistry and technology of a century of photographers, as well as of the tribes whose vanishing trappings and traditions they sought to capture with their craft. The photographers -- William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse, among scores of others -- were intrepid adventurers, fiercely committed to their work, who hauled hundreds of pounds of photographic equipment across the mountains and faced many dangers; their subjects -- including such important warriors as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer) -- appear venerable, dignified, and beaten. Fascinating a...
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1990Uitgever: Chronicle Books;120 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0877017573ISBN-13: 9780877017578Koop dit boek tweedehands
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1990, paperback, good copy [Auteur: Hathaway, Nancy] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Chronicle Books Llc] [Jaar: 1990] [Titel: Native American Portraits 1862-1918]
