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The Vanishing Race

Edward S. Curtis Original Signed Stamped Platinum Print the Vanishing Race, 1904
By Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952
Located in Studio City, CA
"The Vanishing Race" is perhaps the most iconic and sought-after photographic print by renowned
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Antique Early 1900s American Native American Photography

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Paper

"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"The only thing more pathetic than Indians on TV is Indians watching Indians...
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he
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1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Early 20th Century Summer Floral Still Life - Zinnias, Delphiniums, Corn Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
-Kinkaid's book The Man of Yesterday: A Romance of a Vanishing Race, (1908). Volney had many successful
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1930s Realist Still-life Paintings

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Linen, Oil

You mess with me, you mess with my cousins
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

#fangasm, Pabs was TOTALLY inspired by meeeeeeeee111!
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital

It was, like, a super long time ago that ppl were here, right?
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Tell Chakotay that we'll brb
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital, Archival Paper

The Value of Comic Sans
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Beware of the intentions of well meaning Aliens
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

The Away Team Beams Down to What Appears to Be an Uninhabited Planet
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Making a b-line to HaidaBucks, Salmonberry Frap #ftw #starbucksFAIL #lol
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

PRESERVER ONE: Well, looks like we got them all. See, don’t you feel GREAT...
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Yeah... shit's about to go sideways. I'll take you to Amerind. You'll like it...
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

We shall reassert our inherent rights
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Digital

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The Vanishing Race, Signed by Edward S. Curtis, Gelatin Silver Photograph, 1904
By Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Presented is an extremely scarce gelatin silver print of The Vanishing Race by Edward S. Curtis
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Antique Early 1900s American Photography

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Paper

Spaced Invaders
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
as a vanishing race. With the insertion of ovoids, s-shapes and u-shapes into the images, both the
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Re-invaders
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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Re-invaders
H 35.5 in W 22.5 in
What a Great spot for a Walmart!
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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Side Show Band
Located in Los Angeles, CA
important visual records of an institution that has all but vanished. .....” ..... from Robert Weaver One
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The Vanishing Race
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
, seeking to record with images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. No other
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Early 20th Century Photography

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Platinum

Edward S. Curtis Original Signed Stamped Platinum Print the Vanishing Race, 1904
By Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952
Located in Studio City, CA
"The Vanishing Race" is perhaps the most iconic and sought-after photographic print by renowned
Category

Antique Early 1900s American Photography

Materials

Paper

#photobombing the Dzunuḵ̓wa. She's gonna be mad
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
peoples as a vanishing race. With the insertion of ovoids, s-shapes and u-shapes into the images, both
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital

#photobombing the Dzunuḵ̓wa. She's gonna be mad
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Digital

Home Coming
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Home Coming
Home Coming
H 22.5 in W 36.25 in
We shall reassert our inherent rights
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
peoples as a vanishing race. With the insertion of ovoids, s-shapes and u-shapes into the images, both
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

They're Coming! Quick! I have a better hiding place for you. Dorvan V
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Archival Paper, Digital

Choke on an Ovoid
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Prints

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Skeena, Beam Me Up!
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
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We come to witness
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Located in Montreal, Quebec
confronting the dominant colonial culture’s continued portrayal of Indigenous peoples as a vanishing race
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Skeena, Beam Me Up!
By Sonny Assu
Located in Montreal, Quebec
/colonial narrative of an empty Canada and of a vanishing race. What makes Interventions on the Imaginary
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Edward S. Curtis Signed Photograph of Apsaroke Indian Chief
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
life and landscapes of this "vanishing race." In that same year Curtis traveled to the East Coast to
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Early 20th Century American Photography

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By Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952
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vanishing race. It has been suggested that he altered and manipulated his pictures to create a simulation
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SALE!! Pair of Foo Dog Lamps
Located in Atlanta, GA
about 221 AD. Foo Dogs vanished for nearly 400 years after their first appearance. They later returned
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Vintage 1950s American Table Lamps

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SALE!! Pair of Foo Dog Lamps
SALE!! Pair of Foo Dog Lamps
H 28 in W 14 in D 11 in
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