E.S. Curtis
Edward Sherrif Curtis was a turn of the century (late 1800s and early 1900's) photographer who is most famous for his extensive 30 year project to photograph and take notes on various native American peoples and their cultures. He was obsessed with doing this because he wanted to preserve what he saw as a vanishing set of cultures.
Curtis used a process called the photogravure to create most of his images, so that much of his work is contained on what are called Copper Photogravure Plates, an early form of photography that is now rarely used.
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- PBS American Masters: ES Curtis
- US Library of Congress: ES Curtis Featured here are all of the published photogravure images including over 1500 illustrations bound in the text volumes, along with over 700 portfolio plates.