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The outlook – Antique Print

The outlook, c1904. — historic photograph
The outlook, c1904.. Historic photograph from the Native Americans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Edward S. Curtis made this c1904 photograph, which he titled *The Outlook*, and the title points to the picture's subject: a vantage point, a figure looking out over distant ground. Curtis spent the early 1900s photographing Native peoples across the American West, work that grew into his multivolume *The North American Indian*, published between 1907 and 1930. Viewers today should note that many of his pictures were posed, costumed, and arranged to suit his idea of a vanishing way of life, so the image reflects his artistic choices as much as a documentary record.

Created / publishedc1904.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesLC no. 84. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsIndians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,747 × 4,672 px · prints to 12 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222295

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