Edward Sheriff Curtis was born on February 16th of 1868 in Wisconsin and he died on October 19th of 1952 in Los Angeles. He was an ethnologist and photographer. He is know for taking pictures of the American West and specially of Native American people.
His family lived in poverty, and Edward Curtis had to leave school in the sixth grade. As soon as he could, he built his own camera.
When he got older, he became an apprentice photographer. Then he bought a new camera and he started forming a photo studio.
As I have already said, he used to take pictures to Native American people. Most of his pictures are portraits about those people. There are some in black and white, but most of them are like in a kind of brown color.
This ones are my favorite pictures of him. I like them because the people that appear in the photos transmit a lot with their eyes. They are very serious, but their dark eyes say a lot. They also give us to know about a different culture. We can see their costumes, necklaces, plume...
This ones are my favorite pictures of him. I like them because the people that appear in the photos transmit a lot with their eyes. They are very serious, but their dark eyes say a lot. They also give us to know about a different culture. We can see their costumes, necklaces, plume...
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