Arizona Highways Magazine, January 1984 (Ansel Adams; Monarch Butterfly; Mimbres Pottery) (Vol. 60, No. 1)

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Arizona Highways Magazine, January 1984 (Ansel Adams; Monarch Butterfly; Mimbres Pottery) (Vol. 60, No. 1) Details

In this issue: Arizona's Center For Creative Photography. The magazine pays homage to a new Arizona institution in Tucson. It publishes masterpiece works of Ansel Adams, W. Eugene Smith, Edward Weston and other 20th Century American photographic artists. For great fidelity, the W. A. Krueger Company produced the halftones with a 24-inch Goerz Altar lens on premium ortho chromatic films, using a high-resolution screen. "Ansel Adams and the Search for Perfection," a full-page biographical snapshot of his life by Wallace Stegner. Photos by Ansel Adams include full-page "White House Ruin, Canyon de Chelly, 1942;" and half-page "Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, 1944;" "Mimbres Pottery: An Artist's Perspective," by Tony Berlant. 6 pages with color photos and illustrations of this Southwest archeology find. "The Monarch, Nature's Winged Jewels in Jeopardy," by Chandler J. Kennedy. After eons of protected isolation in Mexico's Sierra Chincua range, the monarchs and other butterflies face the possibility of extinction. 8 pages with color photos. "Great News from the Grand Canyon," by David Lavender. The June 1983 flood appear to have caused less damage than feared. 6 pages with color photos. "Professor Taylor's Congress of Cabalistic Wonders," the illusionist and magician who visited Tombstone in 1881. By his grandson E. Cooper Taylor III. 6 pages with color photos and illustrations. Read more

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