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Entrada: Celebrating the Colorado Plateau (January 2010)
Entrada is a collaboration with my friend, the poet David Lee. In 14 sequenced and brilliantly written (and rewritten and rewritten) poems David expresses his love of the southern Utah landscape that he called him for 30+ years. The book ends with an additional poem honoring the life and passing of our friend Ellen Meloy. I have photographed new images and selected others to correspond to the poems.
The book was designed on BLURB.com by myself and is currently ONLY available from me.
Please contact me for details.
Visit the Entrada gallery on my website to get a sense of the imagery. The book has more photographs.
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Art on the Rocks (June 2008)
Art on the Rocks (Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau), Sierra Press, 48-pages, text/photos, 1999. I'm quite proud of this little book. Included in the text are the words of Pueblo and Hopi elders and officials, voices that need to be included more often in books on this subject.
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Dead Horse Point State Park (June 2007)
Dead Horse Point State Park, KC Publications, 65 pages-photos, 2007. This promontory of land is known the worldl over and I was only too glad to have the opportunity to photograph it for this book. From its overlooks you see the best parts of my big backyard!
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Time Among the Ancients (March 2007)
Time Among the Ancients is a 54-page "mini coffee table" book (think tailgate) that features photographs of rock art and ruins from all of the primary National Parks and Monuments on the Colorado Plateau. Select sites from BLM, NFS and tribal lands are also included. All of the sites in the book and the attendant post card book and post card packs were approved for "public consumption" by the governing agencies. This means we chose to share sites that the public generally knows about and that already receive public attention. There are many other fine archaeological sites in the West and we have an ethical obligation to help protect them by not publishing them in a book of this type.
This project allowed me to visit a few new sites as well as many "old friends." It also gave me the opportunity to befriend many archaeologists and land managers.
You can purchase the book on-line by visiting www.cnha.org and visiting the THE STORE and then clicking on COFFEE TABLE BOOKS.
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Collective Willeto (June 2002)
Collective Willeto, the Visionary Carvings of a Navajo Artist, Museum of New Mexico Press, 140 pages, 80 photos, 2002. This work reveals the life's work of Charlie Willeto, a Navajo artist/healer known in the folk art world as the grandfather of Navajo folk art. This book was inspired by the collection and personal enthusiasm of friend Gregory LaChapelle and our great supporter John Smithers.
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Monument Valley (June 2001)
Monument Valley Today (insert). KC Publications 2001. Text and Photos, 16 pages. For my insert I contacted descendents of or the actual people appearing in the original book. I am honored to share the photography credits with Joseph Muench, whose cover photo is the first color photo (1932) made in Monument Valley.
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Southwest Indian Weaving (June 2001)
Southwest Indian Weaving, KC Publications, 65 pages-photos, 2000. This book explores both the basket and rug traditions with a special emphasis on Navajo rugs and Hopi baskets.
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Zuni Fetishes (June 2001)
Zuni Fetishes, KC Publications, 48 pages-photos, 1999. These small amulets made of stone, shell and horn offer a variety of powers to those who carry them. This work details this unique tradition.
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Southwest Indian Pottery (June 1999)
Southwest Indian Pottery, KC Publications, 65 pages-photos/text, 1999. A great overview of the southwest Indian pottery tradition. It includes work by all Pueblos including Casas Grandes in Mexico, Hopi, Navajo and the lesser known pottery-making cultures. I've tried to make it a tribute to the warm and wonderful people who continue this beautiful bound-to-earth-and-soul art.
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Cowboys and Cave Dwellers (June 1997)
Cowboys and Cave Dwellers: Basketmaker Archaeology in Utah's Grand Gulch. School of American Research Press, 1997. This book chronicles the work of the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project who traced artifacts removed from the area by first documenting the historic canyon inscriptions then tracing the paper trail to eastern museums. I was primary photographer.
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Southwest Indian Arts & Crafts (June 1997)
Southwest Indian Arts & Crafts, KC Publications, 80 pages-photos, 1997. A review of tribal arts in the southwest. KC contracted me to perform all the update photography for this series. That experience led me to friendships that continue to this day.
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Southwest Indian Ceremonials (June 1997)
Southwest Indian Ceremonials, KC Publications, 80 pages-photos, 1997. This book offers readers a concise overview of the diverse religious practices to be found in the native southwest today.
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Southwest Indian Tribes (June 1997)
Southwest Indian Tribes, KC Publications, 80 pages - photos, 1997. This book offers a brief, yet concentrated introduction to all the contemporary native cultures in the southwest.
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A Rainbow At Night (June 1996)
A Rainbow At Night: The Art of Navajo Children. Chronicle Press, San Francisco. 48 pages. February, 1997. 23 full-color images matched to artist comments and portrait with an introduction and additional text. Named by Smithsonian Magazine as a 1997 Notable Book for Children. 1998 Parent's Choice Award, 1998 Skipping Stones Magazine Honor Award. Of all the books I've done this is one of two that I am most proud of.
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Where There Is No Name For Art (June 1996)
Where There Is No Name For Art: The "Art" of Tewa Pueblo Children. School of American Research Press. July, 1996. 120 pages, 25,000 word text with 100 photos describing the modern and cultural lives of young Pueblo children. Author and Photographer. Received the 1997 Carey McWilliams Award from Multicultural Review journal as being "the best scholarly or literary book of 1996 on the U.S. experience of cultural diversity"and one of eleven 1998 Southwest Book Awards presented by the Border Regional Library Association. This is the 2nd of two books that I'm most proud of.
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Where Edges Meet (June 1995)
Where Edges Meet: A Sonoran Sanctuary. Western Parks and Monuments Association. 1995. A 15-minute interpretive slide show I produced, directed and photographed for Organ Pipe Cactus NM.
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Anasazi Basketmaker (November 1993)
Anasazi Basketmaker, BLM, 1991. photos and essay. This is the official collected papers from the Basketmaker Symposium focusing on the work of the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project for which I was the photographer. WGG documents the pre-historic artifacts and their stories removed from the Grand Gulch region in the late 1800s.
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Pacific Northwest Coast Indian Arts & Crafts
Pacific Northwest Coast Indian Arts & Crafts, KC Publications, 160 pages-photos, work completed, publication pending. Anybody out there need photos for this subject??
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The Old Spanish Trail
The Old Spanish Trail, KC Publications, 65 pages - photos, work completed, publication pending. Anyone out there need photos on this subject? Follows the landscape from Santa Fe, NM, through southern Utah, Las Vegas, the low end of Death Valley and on to Los Angeles.
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A New Plateau (June 2004)
A New Plateau: Sustaining the Lands and Peoples of Canyon Country. Renewing the Countryside. 2004. I was contracted to do small photo essays of 8 selected individuals.
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Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
Arches & Canyonlands National Parks, Great Mountain West Supply. 1992. 9 images)
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Arches National Park
Arches National Park: Where Rock Meets the Sky. Sierra Press. 2003. A beautifully designed and assembled book.
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Blessed by Light
Blessed by Light: Visions of the Colorado Plateau, Peregrine Smith Books. 1986. A beautiful collection of fine landscape work.
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Canyon de Chelly
Canyon de Chelly: the continuing story. KC Publications. 1999. I contributed several photos.
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Contemporary Southwest Indians (a guide to)
A Guide to Contemporary Southwest Indians. SPMA. 1999. (7 photos)
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Great Excavations
Great Excavations: Tales of Early Southwestern Archaeology. SAR Press. 1995. (cover imagery)
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Mesa Verde
Mesa Verde: the story behind the scenery. KC Publications. 2005. I contributed photos.
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Mound Builders & Cliff Dwellers
Mound Builders & Cliff Dwellers, Lost Civilizations Series. Time-Life Books. 1992. Several photographs on SW archaeology.
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Navajo Ceremonial Baskets
Navajo Ceremonial Baskets: Sacred Symbols, Sacred Space. (cover) By Georgianna Kennedy Simpson. Native Voices Press. 2003. This is the "everything you wanted to know" book about traditional baskets.
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Seven Trails West
Seven Trails West. Abbeville Press. 1996. I contributed work on the Santa Fe trail part.
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Stories and Stone
Stories and Stone: Writing the Anasazi Homeland (anthology) Pruett Publishing 1997. I was asked to contribute the essay written for BLM Basketmaker about my experience photographing for the Wetherill-Grand Gulch Research Project.
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Windows of the Past
Windows of the Past: Ruins of the Colorado Plateau. Sierra Press. 1993. (14 images) This is a great little book about the the plateau's archaeological record.
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Wonders of the Ancient World
Wonders of the Ancient World, National Geographic Atlas of Archaeology, NGS, 1994. I contributed several photographs of SW archaeology.
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