by William H. Goetzmann · Bibliotheque de l'image · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782909808147
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«Les Premiers Américains» is the photographic essay by William H. Goetzmann published by Bibliothèque de l'image in paperback (144 pages).
The book brings together a photographic essay with portraits of Native Americans from the collections of the Library of Congress, showing the clothing and gestures of those portrayed. The cover reproduces one of these portraits: a man in traditional attire with feathers, his hand on his cheek.
Original work: "The First Americans: Photographs from the Library of Congress" (1991); this French edition was published in 1995.
For those interested in documentary photography, art, and the history of the indigenous peoples of North America.
William Harry Goetzmann was an American historian and emeritus professor in the American Studies and American Civilization Programs at the University of Texas at Austin. He attended Yale University as a graduate student and was friends with Tom Wolfe while there. His work on the American West won him the highest prizes for historians, the Parkman Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. He has written and published extensively on American philosophy, American political history, and the American arts. An advocate for the importance of history as a public discussion, he has served in various capacities in television and film production, notably for PBS. He was most recently the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair Emeritus in History and American Studies. His last book published during his lifetime was Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought From Paine to Pragmatism (2009).
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