Timothy Egan worked for The New York Times for 18 years. "Well, Curtis stays, and he opens up his portfolio, and he shows Morgan one more picture, a Mojave native, a young girl, probably about 12 years old, and Morgan is entranced by the picture," Egan says. Luckily for him, President Theodore Roosevelt got Curtis an interview with one of the richest men in America, J.P. Princess Angeline's portrait was the beginning of what Egan calls a "magnificent obsession" for Curtis: documenting the lives and traditions of Native Americans before they disappeared. "The gaze, in the look of her face, you see something that just goes so far beyond a standard portrait picture."
He has her come back to the studio, he sits her down and he takes this extraordinary picture of her," Egan says. "So Curtis finds this bedraggled, old, broken subject, and he's fascinated by her. "He stumbles upon this, I call her 'the last Indian of Seattle' it was Princess Angeline she was the daughter of Chief Seattle, after whom the city was named."Īngeline was living in poverty and outside the law - Seattle, named for a Native American chief, had banned Native Americans from living inside its boundaries. He tells NPR's Rachel Martin that Curtis discovered his first subject almost by accident. It's called Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: the Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. Writer Tim Egan has just completed a new biography of Curtis. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher Subtitle The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis Author Timothy Egan
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