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Coming
To Light |
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the complex life and work of Edward S. Curtis, the visionary photographer
who set out at the turn of the 20th century to capture traditional Indian
life on film before it disappeared forever. Over the next thirty years he
took over 40,000 photos, creating the greatest photographic record of its
kind. When he finished in 1930, his own work vanished into obscurity, then
was rediscovered in the 1970s and helped to inspire the revival of
traditional culture on many reservations. Coming to Light presents a
complex, dedicated, flawed life, and explores many of the ironies inherent
in this story, the often-controversial nature of Curtis' romantic images
and the value of the photographs to Indian people and to the rest of the
world today.
"An admirable account of an artist...charted with impressive sensitivity by Anne Makepeace in this very welcome documentary portrait." - Variety |
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