In New Mexico Light

by Douglas Kent Hall, Sam Shepard

Overview

Photographer, writer, award-winning filmmaker, and poet Douglas Kent Hall is one of the great documentarians of his generation. His photographs of mainstream and counterculture subjects include rock music icons, bodybuilders and prison inmates, cowboys and countercultural heroes. At center is his exploration of the modern American West and the heart that beats there--sometimes violently, often poetically. For over thirty years Hall has photographed and written about New Mexico's unique mix of places and people, a broad representation including ancient sites and Spanish churches, Indian ceremonial dances, portraits of artists and writers, viejos and vagabonds. This book presents 182 black-and-white images accompanied by Hall's insightful essay on the interplay of artistic process with the cultural and natural landscapes of New Mexico. In New Mexico Light is a celebration of New Mexico's contradictions and splendor through the photographs and words of a master observer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890135013
Publisher:	Museum of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	11/16/2007
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	429,602
Product dimensions:	10.26(w) x 12.36(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

In 2005 Douglas Kent Hall received both the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Gold Medal Career Award, Florence Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea. Among his many published works are Frontier Spirit: Early Churches of the Southwest and Passing Through: Western Meditations. His photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.