Curators: Christopher Cardozo and Todd Brandow

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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 12/15/05-2/28/06 Foiano, Italy Photography festival 6/18/06-7/30/06 Bari, Italy   fall of 06 Dublin, Ireland Gallery of Photography 12/15/06-1/31/07 Inis Oirr, Ireland Art Centre 3/31/07-4/30/07 Southeastern Europe Ankara, Konya, and Istanbul, Turkey American Cultural Centers 3/15/06-5/31/06 Bucharest, Rumania National Museum of Art of Romania 6/15/2006-7/31/06 Thessoloniki, Greece exhibition site to be determined mid-October to mid-November, 2006 Athens, Greece exhibition site to be determined early December 2006 to early January 2007 Zagreb, Croatia Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia February 18-March 17, 2007 Ljubljana, Slovenia exhibition site to be determined April, 2007-mid-May, 2007 Northern Europe Warsaw, Poland The State Ethnographical Museum 5/16/06-6/25/06 Sundsvall, Sweden BildensHus Fotomuseum Sundsvall   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 Other elements include historical documents and ephemera related to Curtis's work.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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