Valdir Cruz
Brazilian, born 1954
In 1994, he began his project “Faces of the Rainforest,” to document the life of indigenous people living in the Brazilian rainforest. In 1996, he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for that body of work. These photographs were published as “Faces of the Rainforest – The Yanomami” (powerHouse 2002) as well as in a Brazilian edition. His book Valdir Cruz: Carnaval, Salvador, Bahia, 1995-2005” was published by Throckmorton Fine Art, Inc., in New York City in 2005. His work has been widely exhibited and published and is in collections across the United States and internationally in Brazil.
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American, born Switzerland. Born April 25, 1907, Engelberg, Swit, 1907 - 1984