Annal:1994 Golden Kite Nonfiction Award
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Results of the Golden Kite Nonfiction Award in the year 1994. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- Golden Kite Nonfiction Award
- Children's books
- Children's authors
- Young Adult books
- Young Adult authors
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
- 1994 Golden Kite-nonfiction winner
- Score: 10.44
Photobiography of early twentieth-century photographer and schoolteacher Lewis Hine, using his own work as illustrations. Hines’s photographs of children at work were so devastating that they convinced the American people that Congress must pass child labor laws.
Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis
- 1994 Golden Kite-nonfiction honor
- Score: 6.44
Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful than mere shadows.
When the twentieth century was just getting underway, Curtis began documenting North American Indian culture in words and photographs. Today, almost one hundred years later, his work still stands as the most extensive and informative collection of its kind.
His photographs are more than mere documents; they are works of art revealing subtleties of human expression missing from other historical and anthropological records. Filled with Curtis’s breathtaking photographs and available for the first time in a paperback edition, Shadow Catcher traces Curtis’s life and work from his boyhood in Wisconsin, through his first photo expedition to Alaska in 1897 and the completion of The North American Indian collection in 1930, to his death in 1952.
