Assignment 5

Name_______________________________________
South Seattle Community College
Spring Quarter 2008
ART 170
Randy Nelson
Assignment #5
Edward and Asahel Curtis and Early Pacific Northwest Photographers
Due Wednesday April 30, 2008

View “Different Lenses: The Photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis” TR652.D54 1996 [VHS]

1. How did Asahel Curtis make his living as a photographer?
2. What was Edward Curtis’s obsession?
3. What was realistic about the photography of Edward and Asahel Curtis.
Compare them.
4. How did art characterize their approaches to photography.
Compare the 2.

5. Find another pioneering Washington State
photographer. Write a paragraph or two describing their work. Some possibilities: Frank Matsura, Anders Beer Wilse, Imogen Cunningham, William Boyd, and Darius Kinsey.

Extra Credit (Worth 1 assignment)

Visit the Burke Museum at the University of Washington and the photography show of Thomas Leander Moorehouse’s Native American photographs.

Write a review of the show focusing on 2 photographs.