[A'aninin Camp]

Creator

American Photographer · 1868–1952

A poor reverend's son growing up in Minnesota farm country, the teenage Edward Curtis built his first camera from scratch. The Curtis family moved to the Washington territory, and around 1892 the newly married Curtis bought his first photographic studio in Seattle for 150 borrowed dollars. It quickly became *the* place to be photographed. He later settled in Los Angeles, where he operated photogra