The Gift of the Face

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Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian is the most ambitious photographic and ethnographic record of Native American cultures ever produced. Many critics have claimed that Curtis's images present Native peoples as a "vanishing race", hiding both their engagement with modernity and the history of colonial violence. But in this reappraisal of Curtis's work, Shamoon Zamir argues that Curtis's photography engages meaningfully with the crisis of culture and selfhood brought on by the dramatic transformations of Native societies.