by Library of Congress, William H. Goetzmann · Starwood Pub · tapa dura · ISBN 9780912347967
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«The First Americans» is the photography book by the Library of Congress and William H. Goetzmann, published by Starwood Pub in hardback (144 pages).
It brings together photographs of Native Americans from the Library of Congress collections, with text by William H. Goetzmann. Images by Edward S. Curtis and Adam Clark Vroman, such as sepia portraits or the snake dance, were conceived for publications, tourist shops and photographic studios.
It is part of the Library of Congress Classics series. Includes bibliographical references (pages 140-142) and index.
For readers interested in documentary photography, Native American history and Library of Congress collections.
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).
