Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
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A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life. - Washington Post Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz
… More »A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan's spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life. - Washington Post Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the continent's original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared. Curtis spent the next three decades documenting the stories and rituals of more than eighty North American tribes. It took tremendous perseverance - ten years alone to persuade the Hopi to allow him to observe their Snake Dance ceremony. And the undertaking changed him profoundly, from detached observer to outraged advocate. Curtis would amass more than 40,000 photographs and 10,000 audio recordings, and he is credited with making the first narrative documentary film. In the process, the charming rogue with the grade school education created the most definitive archive of the American Indian. A darn good yarn. Egan is a muscular storyteller and his book is a rollicking page-turner with a colorfully drawn hero. - San Francisco Chronicle "A riveting biography of an American original." -- Boston Globe
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Add a CommentA fine story by a fine writer-story telling Timothy Egan about photographer Edward Sherriff Curtis’s photographic story telling about the native people the original owners of this lands and the loss of their nations. With population of over 10 million roaming all over this lands in 1492 reaching the end of their era when only 237000 was what left of them out of US population of 76 million of new comers according the Censes of 1900. This is the year when Curtis “The Shadow Catcher” started his struggle in pursue of his great idea to tell the story of what was left of the natives of this land for all the times ever coming in the future to be told with his photographs. Timothy Egan writing about Edward Curtis’s epic life story carries the reader finely through a problematic nebulous concoction of consternation he was facing in pursue of his great idea with a performance matching his promise. Edward Sherriff Curtis chose the companionship with the holy and they made him one. Your time with this book is worth as much as cup of life itself.
Now that I've finished reading this book, all my other reading seems boring. This book was really enjoyable. Readers who have lived in the American west, especially anyone who has lived in Seattle, would be glad they read it.
Tim Egan is a wonderful speaker - if you get a chance to hear him, drop everything and go.