Eliot Porter's Southwest

by Eliot Porter

Book Overview

Adobe churches, towering cloud formations, abstractions of nature, the sacred Indian and Spanish lands of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona reveal Porter's ability to capture the essence of a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030060133
• ISBN13: 9780030060137
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Holt McDougal
• Length: 25 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Gosh-darn purty!

This book is full of gorgeous black-and-white photographs from all over the West in the 1940s. Central New Mexico is here--including the Canoncito Church near Santa Fe, Madrid, the La Bajada ruins, and the town and mines of Cerrillos--and so is White Sands, New Mexico, and southern Utah, and the mining towns of Colorado. Many of the places photographed are in ruins, and the black-and-white coloration serves to make them even more desolate, dryer, dustier, bleaker. Sometimes the photos are of wide expanses; oftentimes they're of small details like where the rusted hook of an old door has carved a circle around it, from years of use once upon a time. This book also has a good autobiographical essay by the photographer that serves as an introduction, and the book itself is a terrific historical record of the West, and a great photo collection for any coffee table in need of a conversation piece. I first saw it at a friend's house, and knew I had to get a copy for myself.