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.

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 decades documenting the stories and rituals…