Throckmorton Fine Art announces a special 20th anniversary exhibition featuring photographs by Brazilian photographer Valdir Cruz, a Guggenheim award winner, from December 7, 2017, to February 24, 2018.
Presenças is Cruz’s seventh solo exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York. It is a selection of vintage silver gelatin prints from three projects: Faces of the Rainforest, The Water’s Way, and Roots. Thus, three presences dominate this exhibition of photographs by Valdir Cruz, and a catalog of the show is available.
Over the past three decades, Cruz has documented unique and ephemeral places in Brazil, where people and landscapes create an indelible impression on the viewer. In the words of Spencer Throckmorton, “Valdir Cruz’s exquisite photography confirms Tolstoy’s observation that to be universal, one need only speak of one’s own village.” The power of these images of Brazilian people, distinct landscapes, and magnificent waterfalls opens a discussion about human societies and the environment.
Cruz was born in Guarapuava, in the state of Paraná in the South, and although he has lived primarily in the United States for over thirty years, much of his photographic work has focused 
on the people and landscapes of Brazil. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996 for Faces of the Rainforest, a project documenting the lives of indigenous peoples in the Brazilian rainforest from 1995 to 2000, as well as additional support from Guggenheim with a publication grant award in 2000. Since 1996, he has published ten photography books.
Cruz has been honored with over fifty solo exhibitions. He is represented in the permanent collections of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, TX, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others.
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