How does this imagined image of the other simultaneously assert these artists’ sense of their own national identity?

National Identity/ Colonialism/ Primitivism: French artist, Paul Gauguin, and American photographer, Edward Curtis, represented aspects of the indigenous cultures they were interested in. How are these artists using a western, European lens to imagine and/ or to romanticize the “other?” How does this imagined image of the other simultaneously assert these artists’ sense of their own national identity?