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Edward S. Curtis — Portfolio I, Plate 1:  The Vanishing Race-Navajo
Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio I, Plate 1: The Vanishing Race-Navajo

1904

Opening Curtis's monumental series, this iconic image of Navajo horsemen riding into shadow became symbolic of his entire project's elegiac tone regarding indigenous cultures.

Medium
photogravure

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