Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
2006
Abstract
Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).
Comments
Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:4 (Fall 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.