Photographer A.C. Huerta Takes On The American Way In His Documents Of The Late 20th Century.
By Margaret Regan
AT THE END of the millennium, people tend to live at a
curious remove. Visitors to the Grand Canyon often spend more
time gazing at an IMAX movie about the canyon than they do actually
wandering the natural wonder outside the theatre door. People
drive nightmarish freeways around Los Angeles so they can pay
to meander down the carless and quaint and completely artificial
Main Street of Disneyland. A.C. Huerta photographs these phenomena of life in America, where
real experiences metamorphose into fake, and cultures blur together.
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During a recent exhibitions design class taught by professor Devorah Romanek, curator of exhibits at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico, the works of two photographers who chronicled life in New Mexico captured the interest of two graduate students. The class projects, online exhibitions by Katie Conley and Paloma Lopez, are now available on the Maxwell website. They highlight the work of American photographers John Collier Jr. and Charles Fletcher Lummis.
The Maxwell has been presenting online exhibitions and other content since the beginning of the pandemic shutdown in 2020.
Lummis was a writer, editor, journalist, publisher, archaeologist, ethnographer, librarian, museum founder, conservationist, advocate for Native American rights, promoter of the American Southwest, and, of greatest interest here, a photographer, Romanek explained, noting, “Lummis was part of a group of people in the late 19th and early 20th century, who helped bring attention
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