young woman wearing a turquoise tank top, turquoise and black skirt, white shoes and white beaded headdress, seated bareback on a white speckled horse, standing in front of a backdrop painted with blue sky and white clouds
Xavier Tavera (American [born Mexico], born 1971), Domadora de Caballos (Woman on White Horse [detail]), c. 2010. Color inkjet print. Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Sharon and Bill Richardson Endowment for Art Acquisition. 2011.44.3. © Xavier Tavera. All rights reserved.

Containing Multitudes

Explore the diversity of American experience that photographs can hold, and the ways photographers have sought to “contain multitudes,” in the words of Walt Whitman, by maintaining an expansive ecosystem of images celebrating the contradictions of American life, culture, and history.

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Containing Multitudes

Explore the diversity of American experience that photographs can hold, and the ways photographers have sought to “contain multitudes,” in the words of Walt Whitman, by maintaining an expansive ecosystem of images celebrating the contradictions of American life, culture, and history.

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Xavier Tavera (American [born Mexico], born 1971), Domadora de Caballos (Woman on White Horse [detail]), c. 2010. Color inkjet print. Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Sharon and Bill Richardson Endowment for Art Acquisition. 2011.44.3. © Xavier Tavera. All rights reserved.