Hopi Mother & Child, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, new print, 5 x 7, c1921
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Hopi Mother & Child, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, new print, 5 x 7, c1921. By Edward S. Curtis, c1921, 5" x 7". Taken: c1921. Hopi Mother with Child. Subject: Hopi Indian Mother with child. Photo process: Photogravure (was scanned professionally by the Getty Institute). Edward S. Curtis was born near White Water, Wisconsin, on February 16, 1868. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hopi Mother with Child by Edward S. Curtis, c1921, 5" x 7" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks for checking out our post. Subject: Hopi Indian Mother with child Taken: c1921 Location: Most likely New Mexico, Nevada or Colorado area Photo process: Photogravure (was scanned professionally by the Getty Institute) Photo was printed by a local Camera Photography store, independently owned, used for 20 years Editor is skilled with long time experience with Photoshop Photo: 5 x 7 inch, glossy sepia photo, with no border and no frame Copyright status: No copyright (due to date it was taken the wish of the photographer.) Questions are welcomed. We offer returns for 30-days. Feel free to clip on the photo to see it up close. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ More About Edward S. Curtis ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Edward S. Curtis was born near White Water, Wisconsin, on February 16, 1868. His father as a minister and they lived in farm country. He was drawn to the emerging art of photography. As a teenager, he built his first camera from scratch. His family moved to the Washington Territory around 1887. After marrying, Curtis bought his first photographic studio. It was in Seattle; he paid for it with 150 (borrowed) dollars. It quickly became the place to have your picture taken. He later settled in Los Angeles, where he operated photographic studios at various times on La Cienega Boulevard and in the Biltmore Hotel. As a friend of Hollywood producer Cecil B. DeMille, Curtis was commissioned to make film stills of some of DeMille's epics, including The Ten Commandments . By he 1890's he started what turned out to be his dream: taking photos of local Puget Sound Indians nearby. He'd see them by the water, digging for clams. He continued by visiting communities in Montana and Arizona. Then to more communities in the West. He began to spend more time in the field and less in his studio. His legacy is his amazing photos of the dwindling Native American community. For over a thirty-years he produced The North American Indian , a twenty-volume survey of more than one hundred tribes with supplementary Photogravure portfolios. At least two hundred sets were sold, each priced at the then, astronomical sum of three thousand to forty-five hundred dollars. In 1914 he also made a feature film, In the Land of the Head Hunters , based on the lives of the Kwakiutl, a Pacific Northwest Coast Native American tribe. (from Getty Museum)
