Assignment 5 Fall 2014
Edward and Asahel Curtis and Western American Photographers
due Wednesday October 15, 2014
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]
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?
5. Compare the 2.
6. Discuss a photo by each brother, focusing on a portrait by Edward Curtis.
7. Find another pioneering Western photographer. Why is that photographer
noteworthy? Discuss a photograph by that photographer
7. Find another pioneering Western photographer. Why is that photographer
noteworthy? Discuss a photograph by that photographer
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