Curators: Christopher Cardozo and Todd Brandow

Concept  |  Exhibition calendar  |  Contents  |  Costs  |  Catalogue  |  Exhibition History  |  Exhibition History  |  Press Review

Concept These unique photographic exhibitions are being created expressly to allow powerful images of the North American Indian to be more widely exhibited and seen. Freed from the limitations imposed by sensitive vintage photographs, these exhibitions will be available to communities without modern museums and in exhibition venues without sophisticated environmental controls. The principal goal of each sixty-print exhibition is to celebrate our Native peoples and their history and culture. The exhibition will pay homage to the famed photographer/ethnographer Edward S. Curtis and will illustrate the broad and extraordinary diversity of North American tribes. Each exhibition will contain sixty museum-quality fine art photographic prints; most prints will be re-creations of extremely rare processes originally employed by Curtis for his most prized images. This exhibition will be a radical improvement upon all previous exhibitions of non-vintage Curtis photographs. Top of the Page

Exhibition Calendar Western Europe Genoa, Italy Museo delle Culture del Mondo December 15, 2005-February 28, 2006 Foiano, Italy Photography festival June 18-July 30, 2006 Bari, Italy fall of 2006 Dublin, Ireland Gallery of Photography December 15, 2006-January 31, 2007 Inis Oirr, Ireland Art Centre March 31-April 30, 2007 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Munich, Germany Summer 2009 Cologne, Germany Fall 2009 Souteastern Europe Ankara, Konya, and Istanbul, Turkey American Cultural Centers March 15-May 31, 2006 Bucharest, Rumania National Museum of Art of Romania June 15-July 31, 2006 Thessoloniki, Greece mid-October to mid-November, 2006 Athens, Greece early December 2006 to early January 2007 Zagreb, Croatia Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia February 18-March 17, 2007 Sibiu, Romania Ljubljana, Slovenia April, 2007-mid-May, 2007 Zagreb, Croatia February 21-March 14, 2007 Zadar, Croatia March 19-31, 2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia   April, 2007-mid-May, 2007 Koper, Slovenia May 7-26, 2007 Kosice, Slovakia April, 2007-mid-May, 2007 Bratislava, Slovakia   Kyiv, Ukraine Ivan Honchar Museum January 24- February 6 Lviv, Ukraine Lviv Ethnographic Museum February 21- March 5 Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Yavornytskyi Historical Museum March 20 - April 2 Budapest, Hungary   Northern Europe Warsaw, Poland The State Ethnographical Museum May 16-June 25, 2006 Latin America Guatemala City, Guatemala Instituto Guatemala Americano October 6 - October 9, 2005 Bogotá, Colombia Centro Americano Colombiano de Bogota November 10, 2005 - December 10, 2005 Calí, Columbia Museo La Merced December 27, 2005 - January 15, 2006 Caracas, Venezuela March 9 – April 2, 2006 Tegucigalpa, Honduras   April 20 – May 2, 2006 May 10 – May 23, 2006 Managua, Nicaragua June – August 2006 Guatemala City, Guatemala   August, 6 Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo Isaac Fernández Blanco October 3, 2005 – January 6, 2006 Santiago, Chile National History Museum – Plaza de Armas Jan 25-2005 - March 20, 2006 Asuncion, Paraguay April Lima, Peru Galería Municipal de Arte Pancho Fierro Lima City Hall Gallery May, 4 – May21, 2006 Trujillo, Peru BNC Gallery: Centro Peruano American El Cultural May 30 – May 18, 2006 Chiclayo, Peru BNC Gallery: Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano June 23 – July7, 2006 Arequipa, Peru BNC Gallery: Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano July 18 – July30, 2006 Brazil Brasilia, Brazil Caixa Cultural December 2, 2008-January 18, 2009 Curtiba, Brazil Caixa Cultural January 27- March 1, 2009 Sao Paulo, Brazil Caixa Cultural March 13-April 26, 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Caixa Cultural May 4, 2008-June 28, 2009 Salvador, Brazil Caixa Cultural July 4 -August, 2009 Mexico Campeche, Mexico Sala de Arte Domingo Perez Embassy of EE.UU in Mexico December 15, 2005 – February 26, 2006 Villahermosa, Mexico Galería del Palacio de Gobierno April 7 – June11, 2006 Merida, Mexico Palacio Canton Museum of Anthropology and History June 30 – September 17, 2006 Cancun, Mexico October 13 – November 05, 2006 Tuxtla, Mexico Museo Regional de Chiapas December 14, 2006– March 18, 2007 Oaxaca, Mexico Museo Regional de las Culturas de Oaxaca March 30 - June 3 Veracruz, Mexico Fototeca de Veracruz del Instituto Veracruzano de Cultura October 5 - November 25, 2007 Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala Mexico Museo Regional de Tlaxcala December 19, 2007-February 29, 2008 Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Museo Regional de Guanajuato March 27-May 22, 2008 Torreon, Mexico Museo Regional de La Laguna June 17- August 10, 2008 Top of the Page

Contents The essence of the show is 60 framed, vintage prints in six different media. Other elements include historical documents and ephemera related to Curtis's work. There will be approximately 60 linear meters of wall space needed for this exhibition, plus some additional space for display cases to exhibit the historic material. Top of the Page

Costs A participation fee will be requested from each institution to help cover the expenses of organizing the exhibition. Each museum will be expected to share in the expenses of transportation and transportation insurance on a pro-rated basis. Estimated costs are available upon request. Top of the Page

Catalogue A comprehensive catalogue has been created, "Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian," examining his accomplishments and their importance. This book is the most beautifully printed book on Curtis ever and was published under the guidance of Mr. Cardozo. In addition to texts written by Christopher Cardozo, contributing authors include Pulitzer Prize winning Native American author, N. Scott Momaday, award winning director of a documentary on Curtis, Anne Makepeace, and Joseph Horse Capture. A foreign language edition has been published in French by Editions Marval and in Spanish by Christopher Cardozo Inc, in collaboration with FEP. Special price considerations will be given depending upon the quantity of books purchased. Top of the Page

Previous Exhibition History The collection has been previously shown only as vintage exhibitions during European museum tours since 2000. This is the first time that such high quality, multiple media, modern print Curtis exhibitions have been available for exhibition. Top of the Page

Educational Events A symposium was organized by co-curator, Todd Brandow, for the Paris and Lausanne venues of a previous vintage tour, featuring authorities on Curtis from the US and Europe, speaking on the issues relating to his significance for us today. These symposiums were sponsored by the US Embassy cultural affairs section and may be available again on a similar basis at minimal cost to the museum. The award-winning documentary film by Anne Makepeace, "Coming to Light: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian", will be available for a modest fee. Top of the Page

Press Review Buenos Aires Herald, 16 October 2005 Pagina, 19 October 2005 Top of the Page

Biographical Information on Curators Christopher Cardozo is widely recognized as the world’s leading authority on Curtis’ photographs. Cardozo began collecting Curtis prints in 1973 and now owns the world’s most broad-ranging Curtis collection. Mr. Cardozo’s personal Curtis collection has been exhibited extensively in Europe for several years and will travel to select North American cities later this year Cardozo is the principal consultant/curator to the four major extant private Curtis collections and has been a consultant to many public institutions, including the J. Pierpont Morgan Library. and is the Founder and Chairman of the Edward S. Curtis Foundation. Mr. Cardozo is the author of the internationally acclaimed Curtis books Native Nations and Sacred Legacy, and six other titles.   Todd Brandow worked as an art consultant in NY for many years. Since 1998, he has been living in Paris, working as a photography curator. He has co-produced and co-curated the highly successful Edward S. Curtis vintage exhibitions that have toured European museums since 2000, as well as the modern print Curtis shows that are presently touring Latin America sponsored by the US State Department. He also worked collaboratively with the Cologne-based SK Kultur Stiftung/August Sander Archive on a multi-media exhibition of work by William Christenberry. He is presently co-curating a survey of the French Humanist photographers with Pierre Bonhomme, a major Edward Steichen traveling retrospective with William Ewing of the Musée de l’Elysée and a survey of jazz photography with Bob Shamis of the Museum of the City of NY and A. D. Coleman. He is the executive director of the American non-profit organization, the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP). Top of the Page

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