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The Ancient Shore of Walker Lake
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
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- negative 1924; print 1926
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- c75f4b9f-1b64-45b2-a3d3-0d18cf2ea5de
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View of a desert landscape. Large rocks are scattered across the ground.
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