The Image Taker by Gerald Hausman

The Image Taker by Gerald Hausman

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Features selections of photographs and tribal stories recorded and preserved by the author in his 20-volume masterpiece, "The North American Indian", offering the reader a bridge through time to the last generation of Indians from the Buffalo Days of pre-reservation life.

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The Image Taker by Gerald Hausman

The photographs and stories of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) speak through time of a bygone age. His work acts as a bridge between generations and allows readers to experience firsthand the culture of the Indians of North America. Between 1889 and 1930, Curtis traveled throughout North America photographing and recording the stories and lifeways of the last generation of Indians from the "Buffalo Days". Beginning in 1907, he gradually published his 20-volume masterwork, 'The North American Indian.' Selected from that same masterwork, THE IMAGE TAKER features nearly 200 photographs, rarely seen before in print, alongside the history, myths, and legends of 26 tribal nations.
Hausman, Gerald: - GERALD HAUSMAN, the author of more than 70 books for children and adults spent much of his adult life in New Mexico during which time he translated Native origin stories with Navajo artist and friend, Jay DeGroat. Many of these were aired on Navajo Nation radio station KTNN and The Turquoise Horse was included in the Junior Great Books international reading program. It is used in classrooms throughout the U.S. and in the twenty years since its first publication has become a classic in cultural learning for elementary and middle school students. His folktales have also been aired on the History Channel, NPR, and Pacifica Broadcasting. In 2006 the University of Washington Graduate Film School, (supported by Myra and Bill Gates Foundation and Pixar) created an animated short from Gerald Hausman's book, The Boy with the Sun Tree Bow. It has been used as a textbook for environmental studies in South America. Twelve of Gerald's other books are translated in foreign languages and The New York Times praised the anthology Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee calling it An eloquent tribute to the first great storytellers of America. Other honors for Gerald Hausman's work are from the American Folklore Society, the American Bookseller, Children's Protective Services, the Bank Street College of Education, the National Council of Social Studies, the International Reading Association, Parent's Choice, The Ministry of Education of Jamaica, The New York Public Library Best Books, and CCBC Choices/Best of the Year. Gerald and his wife Loretta have done a number of animal books together and with Alice Winston Carney they have led a summer workshop in memoir writing at The Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico, for the past nine years. Gerald and Loretta also founded Irie Books which publishes memoirs, children's books, poetry, biography and translations. Gerald's most recent book is Island Dreams: Selected Poems from 1964-2015. He has read his poetry at Harvard University, St John's College, the Kennedy Center, Fordham University, Queen's College and dozens of other universities nationwide.
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ISBN 13 9781933316703
ISBN 10 1933316705
Titel The Image Taker
Autor Gerald Hausman
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag World Wisdom Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2009-07-24
Seitenanzahl 192
Preise Short-listed for Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (History) 2009
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