Pinhole Photography
Trim: 9.5" x 11.5"
Pages: 212
Illustrations: 190 color photographs plus gatefolds
Pinhole photographs were the first experimental images with the birth of the camera but the process was superseded by the modern camera and fell into obscurity. This The art of capturing an image through an improvised pinhole device traces back to ancient China and Greece through the Renaissance, reaching its height of popularity in the 1880s. The era of the modern sharp-focus lens camera marked the end of pinhole photography as a major art form. Three decades ago Eric Renner resuscitated the form with his publication Pinhole Journal that ushered in a resurgence of interest by artists seeking an alternative, often conceptual vision and alternative to sharp-focus photography. Renner and Nancy Spencer have out of this effort built the world's largest collection of pinhole art from 31 countries and 500 of artists comprising 6000 images. Pinhole offers new ways of exploring the world using the simplest, improvised mechanisms fashioned of oat boxes, sea shells, and other surprising materials to create images of mysterious, sometimes disturbing beauty in dreamlike landscapes, portraits, still-lifes, abstractions, and politically charged images. In pinhole it is the camera object that looks but the artist that sees, thus accounting for the considerable mystery and poetry that is pinhole photography. Primitive in technological terms, it allows us to visualize things we cannot see. A photograph made with the pinhole camera is always a recording of the cameras "gaze," showing what it looked at, not what the human being saw. The photographer no longer constructs subjective representations; he merely assists at the birth of the image. This book along with the accompanying exhibition, presents two hundred contemporary images representing the finest artistry achieved in pinhole photography, most never before published. Artists Paolo Gioli (Italy), Shi Guorui (China) and Bethany de Forest (Netherlands) join an exceptional roster from Belgium, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, and the United States, accounting for the comprehensive nature of this monumental collection.
Pop Flop is up and away in a big balloon high in the sky during Balloon Fiesta! Suitable for ages 4-8.
Michael Scott’s landscapes embody the primacy of place. They draw from memory, archetypes, and iconic works of the American canon. His paintings aim not to capture a landscape’s particularity, as such, but to infuse it with the regenerative spirit of nature itself. He brings to the work his own sense of wonder, enabling viewers to engage with it from their own points of view. They are rewarded with a portal into America’s wild places, where the elements take center stage.
The Residential Designs of William Lumpkins
Trim: 9" x 11"
Pages: 144
Illustrations: 94 drawings, 10 black-and-white photographs
© 1998
Lumpkins pioneered the adobe passive-solar movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and creating modern architecture patterned after Pueblo-style architectural design.
Land and Lives in Galisteo since 1814
Trim: 8.5" x 10"
Pages: 336
Illustrations: 200 black-and-white and color photographs
© 2020
In her second book on Galisteo, New Mexico, cultural historian Lucy R. Lippard writes about the place she has lived for a quarter century. The history of a place she refers to as Pueblo Chico (little town) is based largely on other people's memories--those of the descendants of the original settlers in the early 1800s, heirs of the Spanish colonizers and the indigenous colonized who courageously settled this isolated valley despite official neglect and threats of Indian raids. The memories of those who came later--Hispano and Anglo--also echo through this book. But too many lives have already receded into the land, and few remain to tell the stories. The land itself has the longest memory, harboring traces of towns, trails, agriculture, and other land use that goes back thousands of years.
Native Expressions from the American Southwest
Trim: 11" x 8.5"
Pages: 144
Illustrations: 160 color images
© 2000
A glimpse into the arts of southwestern tribes and a shimmering portrait of the desert's oldest miracle.
"Red Earth" artfully portrays the beauty and unique culture of New Mexico though poetry and photographs.
Trim: 12" x 10"
Pages: 176
Illustrations: 83 color plates, 21 illustrations
© 2007
The first comprehensive overview of internationally acclaimed artist Richard Diebenkorn's New Mexico period.
Originally published by Dog Soldier Press in 2014, Museum of New Mexico Press is pleased to reissue this 160-page collection of remarkable, full-color photographs of landscapes and wildlife taken over the last fifteen years in and around the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument.
Voices and Visions of the Galisteo Basin
Trim: 10" x 11"
Pages: 272
Illustrations: 158 color photographs, 9 maps
© 1997
Examines six centuries of human history: hunters and gatherers, Southern Tewa people; Hispanic settlers, and Anglo ranches that occupy the land today.