Portfolio I, Plate 20: Vash Gon-Jicarilla
1903
Among the earliest portraits in Curtis's vast project, this dignified representation of a Jicarilla Apache individual showcases the photographer's commitment to portraying Native Americans with respect and humanity.
- Medium
- photogravure
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Spotted works by Edward S. Curtis
Artists in conversation
Gertrude Käsebier
American · b. 1852
Käsebier worked in the same early pictorialist photographic tradition as Curtis, creating dignified sepia toned portrait studies that emphasized the humanity and inner life of her subjects with similar tonal richness and documentary gravitas.
Adam Clark Vroman
American · b. 1856
Vroman was a contemporary of Curtis who similarly dedicated his photographic practice to respectful ethnographic portraiture of Native American peoples of the Southwest, producing monochrome images of comparable historical and documentary depth.
Frank A. Rinehart
American · b. 1861
Rinehart created formal photographic portraits of Native American subjects during the same era as Curtis, sharing the same commitment to dignified representation through sepia toned photographic processes with strong ethnographic and historical intent.
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