#edward curtis

[sex-death-rebirth]

Aphrodite (The Siren of the Sea) by Edward Curtis, c. 1920

[federer7]

Hastobiga (Navajo Medicine Man), 1904

Photo: Edward Curtis

[victusinveritas]

A Navajo man photographed in c. 1904 dressed as Nayenezgáni, a mythical hero from Navajo mythology who, along with his brother Tobadzischini, rid the world of the Anaye (monsters from Navajo mythology). Photograph taken by Edward S. Curtis in Navajo Nation. Credit: julius.colorization

[mariaangels]

Edward Curtis, Chica Tsawatenok, Kwakiutl Village, Columbia Británica1914

[sesiondemadrugada]

Scarface (Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson, 1932).

[doubtspirit]

Edward Curtis, Tonenili, Tobadizischini, Nayenezgani - Navaho, 1904

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

Edward Curtis (1868-1952) – Chocalho de Pássaro. Piegan.

Edward Sheriff Curtis é um dos principais antropólogos sociais dos nativos americanos na América do Norte – e no oeste americano – deixando um legado de escritos, gravações sonoras de canções indígenas e inúmeras fotos em vidro. Assim, de forma não exaustiva, realizou um inventário fotográfico dos nativos americanos das 80 tribos existentes. Esta população indiana, estimada em mais de um milhão de indivíduos no século XVIII, tinha caído para cerca de 40.000 quando ele lançou o seu projecto.

Entre 1907 e 1930, liderou uma verdadeira corrida contra o tempo. Entre as tribos que visitou: os Kwakiutl na costa do Pacífico, os Comanches , os Apaches e os Crees , nas suas típicas tendas, nas Grandes Pradarias e no sopé das Montanhas Rochosas, os Hopis , os Pueblos e outros habitantes do Sul West, o povo Sang , os Blackfeet e os Algonquins em Montana.

Estima-se que Curtis cruzou os Estados Unidos aproximadamente 125 vezes visitando 80 tribos e que foram tiradas 40 mil fotos. Ele também usou um dispositivo de gravação de cilindro de cera Edison que lhe permitiu estudar 75 línguas e dialetos e gravar 10.000 canções indianas.

Parte de seu trabalho foi publicada em uma coleção de vinte volumes intitulada: "O Índio Norte-Americano", incluindo 2.500 fotografias, 4.000 páginas de texto, enquanto no total Curtis tirou quase 50.000 fotos.

[iambitzy]

Aphrodite (The Siren of the Sea) by Edward Curtis, c. 1920

[eopederson2]

The Land Carries Our Ancestors

September 22, 2023 – January 15, 2024 East Building, Upper Level, West Bridge

"Curated by artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), this exhibition brings together works by an intergenerational group of nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States. Their powerful expressions reflect the diversity of Native American individual, regional, and cultural identities. At the same time, these works share a worldview informed by thousands of years of reverence, study, and concern for the land. 

Through a variety of practices—including weaving, beadwork, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, performance, and video—these artists visualize Indigenous knowledge of land/ landbase/ landscape. Together, the works in The Land Carries Our Ancestors underscore the self-determination, survivance, and right to self-representation of Indigenous peoples."

Anyone familiar with the work of Seattle based photographer Edward Curtis (brother of Asahel Curtis also a famed photographer) can catch the ironic references, for Curtis was known, indeed famed, for his portraits of first nations peoples, especially in the Great Plains and Mountain West. The artist and curator of the special exhibit Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is a native of the St. Ignatius Reservation in Montana.

[henk-heijmans]

Navajo (Indian reservation in the US), Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1904 - by Edward S. Curtis (1868 - 1952), American

[mayhaps-a-blog]

You know I do think it's interesting how strongly Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) makes the point that bringing someone back from the dead is inherently selfish.

I've seen it elsewhere but not nearly as unequivocally and plainly put. First, we have Majhal in episode 4 - an alchemist so obsessed with bringing back his dead love, he completely fails to notice that she survived and returned to him. And even once the truth is revealed... he rejects her, since she's not the ~perfect girl~ from his memories, but an old woman - an actual person, with an actual life.

And if you missed it there, we then meet Tucker, so obsessed with keeping his lifestyle and success as a State Alchemist he does, you know, that. And then he goes on to become obsessed with bringing her back - but not her, not really, as he straight-up tells Ed in the 5th laboratory - he wants the girl from his memories, the perfect, unchanging doll.

Both times, we see that those obsessed with bringing someone back from the dead aren't interested in bringing back a person, with thoughts and feelings and their own independent life to live - no, they want their idea of that person, the glowing angel who could never change, never grow, and never go wrong. And that also goes for Ed and Izumi too - Ed was so obsessed with bringing his mother back that he ignored Pinako, ignored the family that took him in, and selfishly put his brother's life at risk... for which he paid the price. Izumi lost her ability to have future children, any of them, stuck on a dream on the child she could have had. Both didn't want that mother/child - they wanted their loved ones, the ones they dreamed of, not the ones that were actually there.

Most times resurrection is brought up in media, it's with the lesson that "oh, the cost is too high", "oh, you're disturbing their rest", "oh, they don't come back right." It's rare to see it put so clearly, so obviously, so horrifically that actually, no, even the fact that you attempt it - even the fact that you want to - is an inherently selfish act, that turns your back on life and the living to chase a dream that may not have ever existed.

It's an interesting take on the whole idea, of death and life and memory and obsession. For all that 2003 dropped the ball on the ending, I do love the development they gave to the characters!

[flamealchemist]

Various official artwork for FMA: Mobile

[plateofpie]

her tripping alphonse with her foot is funny. a basic yet effective move. i think it’s a fun animation detail

[k-wame]

(L-R) Callum Turner, Barry Keoghan, Austin Butler, Edward Ashley, Nate Mann PHOTOCALL - Masters of the Air Premiere - 10 January, 2024 Los Angeles, California

[dyingroses]

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood + AO3 tags

[meyerlansky]

now, seein' as you like to do your fighting at night...