drawing heavily on the mythic and folk traditions of the American Southwest
he captured subjects who were unaware they were being photographed
the monograph elevates the photographs by pairing them with personal commentary
celebrities he photographed
The book presents cultural descriptions and photographic portraits of the Sioux (Lakota and Dakota) and the Apsaroke (Crow) — along with material on the Hidatsa — originally published in the early 1900s as part of Curtis’s twenty-volume project
Photography Auction Catalog. Important Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Photographs and Related Material. Auction #5. April 29, 1978. Argus, Ltd., New York. Aperture Magazine drawing heavily on the mythicWraps, near fine with signature of previous owner and prices realized sheets laid in. 559 lots, with many illustrated. Includes examples from many of the leading figures in the history of photography. Among the highlights of this sale, presented by Argus, which is described as the first auction house devoted exclusively to the sale of photographs and related material, were photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, Gustave
