Curtis Exhibition opens in Guanajuato 

The U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara participated in the opening ceremony for the exhibition of Edward S. Curtis’ photographs of American Indians, “Sacred Legacy” in Guanajuato.  The exhibition has traveled around the Western Hemisphere since 2005 and will continue its tour in Mexico through the beginning of 2009. 

Edward S. Curtis was a renowned photographer and ethnographer who, between 1900 and 1930, developed a photographic record of more than eighty of North America’s native nations.  This unique exhibition of sixty-two fine art photographic prints highlights the diversity among Native American people and their cultures as well as provides an extraordinary example of Curtis’s photographic talent.

The exhibition is currently at the historic Museo Regional de Guanajuato “Alhóndiga de Granaditas” until June 1, 2008, after which it will travel to Torreón, Monterrey and Guadalajara.