That alone seems reason enough to write a book about Curtis, but what specifically drew you to the idea of investing your time in his story today?Įgan: I loved his journey, his arc as an artist - this amazing story of a sixth-grade dropout who takes on one of the most grueling photographic projects in history. Question: Clearly Edward Curtis’ photographs-along with the recordings and other cultural records he produced-constitute one of the most significant anthropological works ever undertaken. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher offers another wonderful dose of Egan’s compelling narrative style a mountain of detail about the epic life of one of the Twentieth Century’s most overlooked photographers and anthropologists.Įgan was kind enough to answer a few questions about Short Nights exclusively for Telluride Inside…Out. This gorgeous book, chock full of classic Curtis images, completes an early Twentieth-Century (sort-of) trilogy for Egan.Įgan won the National Book Award for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl and more recently published The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America, a frightening and cautionary tale about the kinds of wildfires we can expect in the American West sometime very soon. That’s the date when New York Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Timothy Egan-one of the best thinkers and writers about today’s American West-publishes Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. (The following post was first published by Telluride Inside … and Out.)
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