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Article: Pagers, pageants and powwows.(Native American photography, video and art, various artists, Light Factory, Charlotte, NC)
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- May 1, 1999
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Edward Sheriff Curtis has garnered his share of retrospective disdain for his once-celebrated photographs of Native Americans. While the curators at The Light Factory acknowledged him as "a visionary artist and ethnographer" for choosing to focus on the story of American Indians, they accepted contemporary revisionist practices in describing his portraits as "often romanticized."
Consider a review by Kelly Morris in the British journal The Lancet of the 1998 photography exhibition "Native Nations" at London's Barbican Art Gallery:
With their vision of Native life inextricably entwined with the shrinking wilderness, photographers perpetuated the myth of ...