{"id":1115,"date":"2009-11-08T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-11-08T18:42:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T02:42:19","slug":"edward-s-curtis-gallery-dgm-module-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/2009\/11\/08\/edward-s-curtis-gallery-dgm-module-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward S. Curtis Gallery (DGM Module 3-2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardscurtis.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.edwardscurtis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I came across the name Edward Sheriff Curtis while reading Thomas King&#8217;s 2003 Massey Lectures, <em>The Truth About Stories<\/em>. Curtis travelled throughout North America in the early twentieth century, photographing &#8220;Indians&#8221;. According to King, Curtis took over 40,000 photos, of which over 20,000 were published. The gallery linked above shows thumbnails of a small portion of these photos, along with links to Curtis&#8217; biography and some of his writings.<\/p>\n<p>What is particularly interesting about these photos, again according to King, is the way Curtis constructed an image of the &#8220;Indian&#8221;, carrying &#8220;Indian&#8221; clothing, wigs and and other cultural paraphernalia to lend to those who didn&#8217;t look quite Indian enough to match the late-Romantic image of the noble Indian, even paying some to shave off western-looking facial hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.edwardscurtis.com\/ I came across the name Edward Sheriff Curtis while reading Thomas King&#8217;s 2003 Massey Lectures, The Truth About Stories. Curtis travelled throughout North America in the early twentieth century, photographing &#8220;Indians&#8221;. According to King, Curtis took over 40,000 photos, of which over 20,000 were published. The gallery linked above shows thumbnails of a small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[732,682,6312,5740,33,6311],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-3","tag-curtis","tag-indian","tag-noble","tag-photographs","tag-photography","tag-romanticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}