Book Offers Portrait of Prolific Photographer Who Captured Native American Lives (11/22/12)
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Backed by Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Curtis set out in 1900 to document the lives of Native Americans. Over the next 30 years, he took more than 40,000 pictures and 10,000 audio recordings. Jeffrey Brown talks to Pulitzer Prize winner Timothy Egan about his new biography of Curtis, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher.
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7 min 45 sec
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