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Edward S. Curtis — Portfolio IX, Plate 317: The Clam Digger
Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio IX, Plate 317: The Clam Digger

1900

Part of Curtis's monumental documentation of Pacific Northwest coastal peoples, this photogravure captures the quiet dignity of subsistence labor with the photographer's characteristic soft-focus romanticism.

Medium
photogravure

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Edward S. Curtis, Portfolio IX, Plate 317: The Clam Digger, 1900

Part of Curtis's monumental documentation of Pacific Northwest coastal peoples, this photogravure captures the quiet dignity of subsistence labor with the photographer's characteristic soft-focus romanticism.

Medium
photogravure
Year
1900
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Monochrome, Photography, Twentieth Century, Cultural Documentation, Figure, American, Native American, Portrait, Photogravure, Ethnographic

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago