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Jeffrey Foxx’s Photograph Exhibition of Native Americans Held in Hunan
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2013-05-06 15:47
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From April 26th to June 24th, a special exhibition featuring Jeffrey Foxx's photographs of indigenous peoples in America, sponsored by Hunan Provincial Museum and an art association from the United States, is held in Changsha Municipal Museum. Over 200 guests from government, media and neighboring community attended the opening ceremony on April 26.
Opening Ceremony
Mr.Li Jianmao, deputy director of Hunan Provincial Museum said at the opening ceremony: “With the development of human society, the role of cultural preservation played by the museum as a public cultural institution is gaining more and more attentions and support. To this end, we have been carrying out continuous and further explorations and practice. Hunan Provincial Museum is dedicated to providing more and better services to the public. Although our museum is now at the critical period of the renovation and expansion project, we still successfully held this exhibition.” After the ceremony, the guests visited the exhibition.
Since it was closed for the renovation and expansion project from June 18th, 2012, Hunan Provincial Museum has been trying to develop the new mechanism of serving the public during the construction period. “Jeffrey Foxx’s Photographs of Native Americans” is the first special exhibition held jointly by Hunan Provincial Museum with other local museums for the past ten months. This exhibition is the first relatively complete showcase of the life of Native Americans. And Jeffrey Foxx is an ethnographic photographer with international repute. Over the past thirty years, he has produced more than 20,000 photographs by leaving his footprints at every corner of the American continent. For this exhibition, he selected 200 photographs and divided them into three parts, namely, “Mayans”, “Incans” and “North American Aborigines”, which are the faithful records of the life of the indigenous peoples in America, revealing their historical environment, religious ceremonies, and daily life.
