Portfolio I, Plate 30: At the Shrine-Navaho
1904
Depicting a sacred Navajo ritual space, this early photogravure demonstrates Curtis's respectful approach to documenting Native American spiritual practices through his camera lens.
- Medium
- photogravure
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Spotted works by Edward S. Curtis
Artists in conversation
Adam Clark Vroman
American · b. 1856
Vroman was a contemporary of Curtis who also photographed Navajo and Pueblo peoples in the early 1900s using similarly respectful documentary approaches, capturing sacred spaces and spiritual practices with quiet dignity and monochromatic tonal depth.
Karl Moon
American · b. 1879
Moon created photogravure portraits and documentary images of Native American peoples during the same early twentieth century period as Curtis, sharing his commitment to recording Indigenous cultural and ceremonial life with careful compositional reverence.
Gertrude Käsebier
American · b. 1852
Käsebier worked in pictorialist photography and photogravure during the same era as Curtis, producing richly toned monochromatic images of Native American subjects including members of Buffalo Bills Wild West show, blending documentary intent with atmospheric visual sensitivity.
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