EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)

細節
EDWARD S. CURTIS (1868-1952)

The Vanishing Race, Navaho

Orotone. 1904. Signed in gold ink on the image. 11 x 14in. In the original studio frame with remnants of 2 studio labels on the reverse of the frame.
出版
The North American Indian 1907-30, published in Portfolio 1, pl. 1; and The Life and Times of a Shadowcatcher, p. 90.

拍品專文

Curtis wrote of this image: The thought which this picture is meant to convey is that the Indians as a race, already shorn of their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future. Feeling that the picture expresses so much of the thought that inspired the entire work, the author has chosen it as the first of the series.