What about Edward Sheriff Curtis' 1904 photograph of the very same canyon? The curator of the exhibition suggests that this shot is suspect, because here the photographer seized on an opportunity "for the picturesque." The "small Navajo figures cross the barren land on horseback, as at the beginning or the end of a mythic tale." Personally, I see no problem. It's not as if Curtis imported these figures to the canyon. Not everything picturesque is a lie.