Famous+Photographer

= Edward Sheriff Curtis = Born on February 16 1868. near Whitewater, Wisconsin. In 1874 his family moved to Minnesota. Edward S. Curtis dropped out of school when he was only in grade six. After that, he built his own camera. In 1885, when he was seventeen years old, he became an apprentice photographer. And in 1887, his family moved to Seattle, Washington. There he bought a new camera and became a partner in a photography studio with Rasmus Rothi. He payed $150 and owned fifty percent of the studio. But six months later, Curtis left the studio and became partners with Thomas Guptill to form a new studio called "Photographers and Photoengravers". In 1906, J.P. Morgan, a financier and art collector, offered Edward S. Curtis $75,000 to make a book on the North American Indian. Edward's goal was not only to photograph but the also document the life of the North American Indian before that way of life would disappear. Edward S. Curtis was inspired why the American West and the Native American peoples. His photographs have become culturally known as iconographic images of the original ways of Native American life. Curtis favored the documentary style and his photos are commonly done in sepia. He also did a lot portraits.

//Three Chiefs, Piegan 1900// Design Elements: Element Relationship Use of light: Natural sun light, Minor shadows, Black and white.

//Bear's Belly// Design Elements: Triangles, Colour Space. Portrait Style Use of light: Dark and shadowy. Sepia

//Wishham Girl// Design Elements: Balance, Portrait Stlye Use of Light: Sepia

//Red Hawk at an Oasis in the Badlands// Design Elements: Depth of Field Use of Light: Sepia, Contrasting Shades

//Nayenezgani-Yeibichai, Navajo, 1904// Design Elements: Simple and Single Point, Portrait Style Use of Light: Indoor, Sepia

==== All of these photos are good representations of Edward Sheriff Curtis's work because they are pictures of Native Americans. Most of these are done in sepia and many of them are portrait-style photographs. ====