A review by jbrugge
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

5.0

This was fascinating not just for discovering someone who was a tremendous artist, but for learning that there were so many people in that time who bucked the conventional view of native Americans as savages. And that he (and others) lived out their convictions for decades, against the flow, to record the humanity and grace of people that everyone else wanted to forget or ignore. It's a remarkable story, and told so well that I couldn't put it down.