Renegade Type

Apache · Portfolio 1 · Plate 12

$12,500

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He yielded to the inevitable — but his eyes never did.

The U.S. Army called a “renegade” any Apache man who left the reservation without permission — a criminal classification applied to an entire people’s resistance. By the time Curtis took this image, the Apache wars were over. Curtis called the subject Genitoa. His field notes record that Genitoa lived in peace — not because he preferred it, but because he must.

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