Join members of the Boston Association of PBK for a book discussion via Zoom, scheduled for the evening of Tuesday, June 30, 2026, at 7:30 pm. (Please note we are meeting on Tuesday!) Guests of participants are welcome and please come even if you haven’t finished (or even started!) the book. Please RSVP to thomas@pbkboston.org or to tlaage@hotmail.com.

The discussion will be on this book: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

By Timothy Egan

Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in rarefied circles, a friend to presidents, vaudeville stars, leading thinkers. But when he was thirty-two years old, in 1900, he gave it all up to pursue his Great Idea: to capture on film the original inhabitants before the old ways disappeared.

Curtis spent the next three…