Native American portraits 1862-1918
Subtitle: photographs from the collection of Kurt Koegler
By: Nancy Hathaway.
Contributors: Koegler, Kurt.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Koegler, Kurt -- Photograph collections; Indians of North America -- Portraits
Description: Publisher description: Over one hundred photographs from the renowned Kurt Koegler collection of Native American portraits taken between the end of the Civil War and the end of World War I are featured in this powerful compendium depicting a proud and defeated people. Native American Portraits presents a factual, anecdotal, and visual history of the evolving artistry and technology of a century of photographers, as well as of the tribes whose vanishing trappings and traditions they sought to capture with their craft. The photographers -- William Henry Jackson, Camillus Fly, Carleton Watkins, and Lee Moorhouse, among scores of others -- were intrepid adventurers, fiercely committed to their work, who hauled hundreds of pounds of photographic equipment across the mountains and faced many dangers; their subjects -- including such important warriors as Sitting Bull, Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Red Cloud, Geronimo, and Chief Gall (who led the Indians to victory against Custer) -- appear venerable, dignified, and beaten. Fascinating and provocative, this richly illustrated and painstakingly annotated volume documents the intersection of photography in its infancy and Native American culture in precipitous decline.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [116]) and index.