Up in the Air, Back in
Almost eighty years ago, Coronado State Monument, now Coronado Historic Site, opened on May 29, 1940. At the [...]
Framework
Illustrative Artists
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK America’s land is at the heart of our national visual character. In the attempt to [...]
Petal Pusher
BY KATHERINE WARE It’s spring, and our fancy turns to flowers. For those who are not the gardening sort, or [...]
Santa Fe’s First Exhibition
BY DAVID ROHR Before there were any museums in Santa Fe, civic boosters presented what was likely the very [...]
Building a Photograph
BY KATHERINE WARE Photographer Patrick Nagatani (1945–2017) didn’t just take pictures, he made pictures. [...]
Outside the Frame
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Carl Newland Werntz was a painter, fine arts photographer, advertiser, illustrator, [...]
The Color in Color Photography
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK The tradition of coloring, or at the least applying a little tint, goes way back to the [...]
Dressed for Success in the West
In 1865, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley famously urged, “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” The imperative suggested economic opportunity, and indeed boundless opportunities greeted the young men and women who struck out on wagon trains and horseback to make their fortunes in the West. But the young, restless, and unemployed also saw the opportunity as a chance to reinvent themselves by tossing off Eastern conventions. [...]
Vietnam 1968
Vietnam, the televised war, the war that divided us, the war we did not win. Some of us unavoidably served in it, others protested it, many young men died. There is no shortage of photographs documenting the horrors of this “police action.” Military photographers and the free press took millions of photographs of the Vietnam conflict between 1962 and 1975. [...]
Windows into Wonder
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK What makes vintage photographs so fascinating? Unidentified folks, long-gone buildings, [...]
New Settlers
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Arriving on New Mexico’s counterculture scene in the mid- 1960s, Irwin Klein used his [...]
Collectors’ Collections
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK There are people in the world we call collectors, and if not for them most of our museums [...]
Along the Pecos
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK One of the staples of desert life is the presence—or scarcity—of water. Its importance [...]
Through the Looking Glass
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Glass negatives were a boon to photography when they were first introduced in the 1860s. [...]
Trail of Hard Knocks
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK When Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where [...]
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