Edward S. Curtis Above the Medicine Line:
Portraits of Aboriginal Life in the Canadian West
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by Rodger D. Touchie
The Medicine Line is the forty-ninth parallel that American Edward Curtis crossed each year as he travelled north to visit, study, photograph, film, and record the First Nations of Canada’s West Coast and, on one journey, Alberta.
Rodger D. Touchie’s Edward S. Curtis: Above the Medicine Line is a handsome volume that treats readers to some of Curtis’s stunning black-and-white photography. As Touchie tells of Curtis’s life and travels, the photographs offer compelling glimpses of landscapes and peoples that a century later seem both strangely present and remarkably foreign. You will want to linger over many of these extraordinary images.
— Phil Koch (Read bio)
Phil Koch is the News and Reviews Editor of Canada's History.