
Rio
A Photographic Journey Down the Old Rio Grande
Melissa Savage(Editor)
University of New Mexico Press
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-0-8263-5689-5 (ISBN)
Description
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, cultivation, trade, floods, the Mexican insurrection, the Big Bend region, and the estuary where the river at last meets the Gulf of Mexico. Essays by Rina Swentzell, G. Emlen Hall, Juan Estevan Arellano, Estella Leopold, Norma Elia Cantu, Jan Reid, and Dan Flores illuminate the images.
Reviews / Votes
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 Political Ecology of the Colorado River Delta, 1940-1975""Tremendously compelling. This book provides a great hint of what has once been as well as what could yet again be."" - Jack Loeffler, author of Thinking Like a Watershed: Voices from the West
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albuquerque, NM
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8263-5689-5 (9780826356895)
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Persons
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.
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