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Edward S. Curtis Photographs on Display at Santa Fe Art Auction
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis’s most famous photographs this weekend.
Christopher Cardozo, often anointed as the foremost private collector of works by Edward S. Curtis, couldn’t shake the nagging feeling of a white man owning thousands of photographs of Native Americans. Curtis, an American photographer and ethnologist, is known for his portraits of Indigenous people in the first half of the 20th century.
In 2014, Cardozo initiated the 10,000 Print Repatriation Project, which sought to find the descendants of Curtis’s portraits and give the families high-quality reproductions of their loved ones. (It’s said that Curtis took portraits of 10,000 Native people.)
“It was a huge legacy for Chris Cardozo, who was probably the most important and largest collector and dealer of Edward Curtis works for nearly fifty years,” says Gillian Blitch, president and CEO of Santa Fe Art Auction. “He invested quite a lot of his own money to locate the descendants of the subjects of Curtis’s portraits.”
Cardozo, who founded Cardozo Fine Art in Saint Paul, MN., passed away on February 21, 2021 at the age of seventy-two.
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The North American Indian (1907-1930), by Edward S. Curtis, was published in a limited edition and sold by subscription. The lavishly illustrated volumes were printed on the finest paper and bound in expensive leather, making the price prohibitive for all but the most avid collectors and libraries. Subscriptions sold for about $3,000 in 1907; the price rose to about $4,200 by 1924. Although the plan was to sell 500 sets, it appears that Curtis secured only about 220 subscriptions over the course of the project. In 1935 the assets of the project were liquidated, and the remaining materials were sold to the Charles Lauriat Company , a rare book dealer in Boston. Lauriat acquired nineteen unsold sets of The North American Indian, thousands of individual prints, sheets of unbound paper, and the handmade copper photogravure plates. They lay forgotten in the bookstore’s basement until their rediscovery in the 1970s, which marked the revival of interest in Curtis’ haunting images of American Indians.