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[Shows As He Goes, half-length portrait, facing right, bare chested] – Vintage Photo Print

[Shows As He Goes, half-length portrait, facing right, bare chested], c1905. — historic photograph
[Shows As He Goes, half-length portrait, facing right, bare chested], c1905.. 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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Shows As He Goes is a half-length portrait of a man turned to the right, with his bare chest and shoulders filling much of the frame. It belongs to Edward S. Curtis's effort, begun around 1900, to record Native American peoples across the West in photographs and written accounts. Curtis often posed his subjects against plain backgrounds and chose clothing, props and poses to suit his ideas of traditional life, so the portrait reflects his artistic choices as well as his sitter. The image is catalogued with the Library of Congress's Edward S. Curtis Collection, where it helps researchers study how early twentieth-century portraiture shaped public views of Native Americans.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesCurtis no. 276-05. LC no. 87. Library of Congress prints and photographs: an illustrated guide / Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 26 Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsShows As He Goes. Indians of North America--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,786 × 4,691 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222288

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