R A I N F O R E S T
Photographs by Valdir Cruz
(BOOK)

OCTOBER 17 - NOVEMBER 30, 2002

Throckmorton Fine Art is proud to announce our upcoming exhibition, RAINFOREST: Photographs by Valdir Cruz. This series of black and white photographs are a prophetic portrait of a people and a place on the brink of extinction. The Yanomami, native to Venezuela and Brazil, are believed to be descendants of those who migrated over the Bering land bridge some 20 centuries ago and have been residents of the Amazon for the past 15,000 years. Though they are one of the last remaining societies untouched by modernization, interference from outsiders has incontestably altered the fragile future of the Yanomami.

Like Edward S. Curtis before him, Cruz's haunting images are made all the more hallucinatory by the knowledge that this ancient culture is about to disappear off the face of the earth. Faces of the Rainforest, a stunning 144 page hard cover volume with 90 duotone images will accompany the exhibition.