Assignment 6, Winter 2010

Name_______________________________________
South Seattle Community College
Winter Quarter 2010
ART 170
Randy Nelson
Assignment #6
Edward and Asahel Curtis and Early Pacific Northwest Photographers
Due Monday, February 22

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

Optional: The Shadow catcher, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian produced and directed by T.C. McLuhan
TR140.C87 1993 [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 both 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.

6. Choose a photograph by the photographer you have chosen. Attach a copy or provide me with a link and properly site the photograph.