2008 American Exhibit of Schultes Photos: “The Lost Amazon”
July 17, 2008 · Print This Article
From the website of the National Museum of Modern History in the U.S.:
The Lost Amazon
The Photographic Journey of Legendary Botanist Richard Evans Schultes
April 17, 2008 through November 2, 2008
Based on Wade Davis’ and Chris Murray’s The Lost Amazon, this exhibit presents thirty-eight of Schultes’ photographs accompanied by evocative quotations from Davis and Schultes. The exhibit also includes Schultes’ Rolleiflex camera, several herbarium sheets from the Museum’s collection that use specimens Schultes collected, and personal items from the Schultes family.
More about the exhibit here.
Kamsá apprentice with a “drunken snake” psychoreactive tree datura blossom, Sibundoy, June 1953
More images from the book are here.
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