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Rio: A Photographic Journey down the Old Rio Grande
Melissa Savage (Ed.)
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Description for Rio: A Photographic Journey down the Old Rio Grande
Paperback. Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river's great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation. Editor(s): Savage, Melissa. Series: Querencias Series. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; AJCR; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 256 x 13. Weight in Grams: 578.
Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. The dynamic Rio Grande has run through all the valley's diverse cultures: Puebloan, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river's great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation - from those of nineteenth-century expeditionary photographer W. H. Jackson to the work of the great twentieth-century chronicler of the river, Laura Gilpin. The photographs are assembled in thematic bundles - river crossings, ... Read more
Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. The dynamic Rio Grande has run through all the valley's diverse cultures: Puebloan, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river's great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation - from those of nineteenth-century expeditionary photographer W. H. Jackson to the work of the great twentieth-century chronicler of the river, Laura Gilpin. The photographs are assembled in thematic bundles - river crossings, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Querencias Series
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826356895
SKU
V9780826356895
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99-15
About Melissa Savage (Ed.)
Melissa Savage is a geographer and conservationist. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and the director of the Four Corners Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico. William deBuys's Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range (UNM Press) has been revised and reissued in ... Read more
Reviews for Rio: A Photographic Journey down the Old Rio Grande
Sparkles among the many books written about the Rio Grande. Rio captures the relationship between the river and those it touches with language and essays as evocative as the images themselves. Readers will be rewarded with a deeper understanding of the Rio Grande through this spectacular book. - Evan R. Ward, author of Border Oasis: Water and the ... Read more