There comes a presentation on Native American Museum of Tlaxcala
From today until February 29, 2008 will be shown the photo collection "The sacred legacy, Edward S. Curtis and the American Indian "at the Regional Museum of Tlaxcala, ex-San Francisco.
This exhibition integrates various aspects of daily life on different indigenous peoples living in U.S. territory since 1900.
The sample consists of 62 photographs made with a whole variety of techniques and offers from sepia tones ended up in black and white images as well treated by orotone, a resource that gives a golden plate.
The photographer Edward S. Curtis, a native of Seattle, also used procedures such as platinum and silver gelatin on.
The images are from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, erected along a route that photographer identified for their work to travel throughout the United States to reach Alaska.
Curtis, funded by himself, traveled for almost 25 years, while that in addition to portraying habits and customs such as migration, clothing, housing and food, were given the task of studying and analyzing each trait that consisted of their cultural spectrum characters.
Among the more people that resulted in his lens are the Hopi, Suwamish, Navajo, Sioux and Apaches of the Southwest, a region in which concentrated most of his work from Arizona and New Mexico to Texas, California and northern Mexico.
The exhibition is divided into three geographic areas, highlighting the colors of lights designed for each region in order to bring the museum space of the museum and the design of a journey, so that the viewer achieves better visual reading in each photograph.
Parallel to the exhibition, the authorities arranged for January 2008, a course-photography workshop where attendees will learn and learn to use the techniques that were used in making and printing photographs of past generations.
On the initiative of Molatore Salviejo, will be shown to a letter written by the head of the tribe Suwamish Seattle in the year 1855, where he was responding to the offer to purchase the land for part of then-president Franklin Pierce, a document that contains information on how people perceived that nature.
Pierce asks the president to head it sells the Seattle area to which he responds that it can not sell what is not theirs, because in this territory there are meanings as water currents, the flight of the eagle and the land where they lie the remains of their ancestors, and their indignation about places devastated by the white man, added the director of the museum.
The collection is owned by the U.S. government and the offer of the same exposed to different parts of the country and even the continent, is in charge of the U.S. embassy in Mexico.
It has been shown in various locations since 2005 and expiring touring the continent by 2010.
Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) is recognized as the photographer who conducted an extensive documentation of tribal life in the neighboring countries of the north, work that has given meaning to the knowledge about these indigenous groups and their projections at the global level.
The main intention of the show is to illustrate the diversity of American tribes and stimulate dialogue between the peoples of Latin America.
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