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[Hopi, Watching the Dancers]
Creator
Edward S. CurtisAmerican Photographer · 1868–1952
All works by this person →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
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1906
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print or platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 5fba8d44-1ea0-41f8-af12-765b1a06687d
From the Getty Museum record
Three Hopi girls, wrapped in heavy blankets and wearing the squash blossom hairstyle of maidens, sit and stand on an adobe rooftop, watching a pueblo dance below. A fourth girl is hidden behind the girl at right, with only a single twist of her hair visible over the standing girl's shoulder. The standing girl glances suspiciously at the photographer, Edward Curtis, who has invaded the girls' privacy with his camera's presence. In this photograph, the onlookers have themselves become an event to be witnessed.
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