Landscape Dreams, a New Mexico Portrait

Landscape Dreams, a New Mexico Portrait
Author: Marin Sardy
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0826348793

This collection of elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico's most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state's captivating physical variety and enduring allure. With subject matter ranging from some of the state's most iconic landforms--including the White Sands desert and Carlsbad Caverns--to the people who work the land, Varjabedian's images pay homage to New Mexico's ancient history and to the homely details of everyday life. In photographing his subjects, whether epic or mundane, Varjabedian seeks the moments when the light, shadow, composition, and other elements combine to express the beauty of the place. Marin Sardy's wide-ranging essay provides historical and cultural contexts in which to understand Varjabedian's work. Scholar-poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish defines the particular quality of the artist's imagery.

Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait

Landscape Dreams, A New Mexico Portrait
Author: Craig Varjabedian
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-10-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0826348815

This collection of elegantly composed black-and-white images by one of New Mexico’s most accomplished photographers, celebrates the state’s captivating physical variety and enduring allure. With subject matter ranging from some of the state’s most iconic landforms—including the White Sands desert and Carlsbad Caverns—to the people who work the land, Varjabedian’s images pay homage to New Mexico’s ancient history and to the homely details of everyday life. In photographing his subjects, whether epic or mundane, Varjabedian seeks the moments when the light, shadow, composition, and other elements combine to express the beauty of the place. Marin Sardy’s wide-ranging essay provides historical and cultural contexts in which to understand Varjabedian’s work. Scholar-poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish defines the particular quality of the artist’s imagery.

Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby

Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby
Author: Craig Varjabedian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

Varjabedian illuminates the dramatic cliffs and plains of Ghost Ranch, once the home of Georgia O'Keeffe.

New Mexico

New Mexico
Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 1423616332

A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various social and political elements that have made the Land of Enchantment what it is today. Filled with images that document the past hundred years, New Mexico is a photographic delight accompanied by brief insightful essays that leave the reader in no doubt of a history that is both imposing and exciting in its scope. This book is also an official product of the state's centennial celebration. Richard Anthony Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is a former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century New Mexico history.

About Art

About Art
Author: Stan Berning
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2009-01-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0578006235

This morning I am contemplating how we humans, awkwardly tangled in dreams of salvation, struggle to lend meaning to a physical world that is most often brutally indifferent. It may be that the one thing of substantial power left to us is our own imagination. Thus begins the story of a road trip up the West Coast of North America; a journey which comes to a dramatic conclusion months later in Mexico. A unique look at the nature of prayer, the power of dreams, and the risks and rewards we all face imagining ourselves into the world, 'about art' is the memoir of one artist's quest to understand the life he has lived.

Ernest Knee in New Mexico

Ernest Knee in New Mexico
Author: Ernest Knee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2005
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

A memoir and novella highlighting the Santa Fe Fiesta tradition of burning in effigy Zozobra, or Old Man Gloom.

Four & Twenty Photographs

Four & Twenty Photographs
Author: Craig Varjabedian
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780826340948

One of the West's most eloquent photographers shares his favorite images and his stories of how they came to be.

Into the Great White Sands

Into the Great White Sands
Author: Craig Varjabedian
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2018-03-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0826358314

Award-winning photographer Craig Varjabedian has spent decades photographing the many moods of the magnificent and ever-changing landscape of New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument. His photographs reveal snow-white dunes of gypsum, striking landforms, storms and stillness, panoramic vistas and breathtaking sunsets, intricate wind-blown patterns in the sand, ancient animal tracks, exquisite desert plants, and also the people who come to experience this place that is at once spectacular yet subtle. Varjabedian’s evocative color images provide the reader with an almost palpable sense of this extraordinary place. These photographs are enriched by several essays written by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, noted poet and author; Dennis Ditmanson, retired White Sands National Monument superintendent; Jim Eckles, retired Missile Range public affairs officer; and Craig Varjabedian, the photographer who shares his insights and experiences of photographing this inspiring landscape and offers tips on making better pictures of White Sands.

Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams
Author: Barry Lopez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2024-07-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1668080028

Winner of the National Book Award This bestselling, groundbreaking exploration of the Far North is a classic of natural history, anthropology, and travel writing. The Arctic is a perilous place. Only a few species of wild animals can survive its harsh climate. In this modern classic, Barry Lopez explores the many-faceted wonders of the Far North: its strangely stunted forests, its mesmerizing aurora borealis, its frozen seas. Musk oxen, polar bears, narwhal, and other exotic beasts of the region come alive through Lopez’s passionate and nuanced observations. And, as he examines the history and culture of its indigenous communities, along with parallel narratives of intrepid, often underprepared and subsequently doomed polar explorers, Lopez drives to the heart of why the austere and formidable Arctic is also a constant source of breathtaking beauty, mystery, and wonder. Written in prose as pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is a timeless mediation on the ability of the landscape to shape our dreams and to haunt our imaginations.