Portrait of America

Shamoon Zamir’s The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian provides a spectacularly researched analysis of the work of Edward S. Curtis. Zamir provides in-depth background about Curtis and his photographic career. Well illustrated, with both published images and prints from the original un-retouched negatives, this book provides substantial new insight into Curtis’s creative process, from creation through publi-cation of his landmark books