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Up on the Blue River, in east-central Arizona, cow-country folk account Herschel Downs a respected gent. Herschel’s spread, the UP Connected, kind of leads a back-bush cattle community, especially in…

Editor’s Note: When I was discussing this month’s portfolio with Photo Editor Jeff Kida, I asked, “What can we do that’s different?” About 10 minutes later, he walked into the art department with a…

Edward Abbey once wrote, “Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.” The first time I read it, I understood…

GRAND PRIZE WINNER
Jessica Fridrich
A stationary monsoon storm at sunset provides an unusual combination of light, reflection and shadows amid the textured “brain rock…

My first photograph is also my first memory. I made the image in 1951, when I was 3 years old, with a Brownie Target Six-20 camera. I remember it vividly: I was on a walk with my parents on a brisk…

It’s early March, and I’m on the phone with William Albert Allard. He’s reading me what he once wrote about Arizona rancher Henry Gray, whom Allard had met while traveling across Arizona: “We sat in…

JK: Both of these photographs show the same subject, but they were made using different shutter speeds. Which do you prefer?
JD: When I was photographing this great blue heron, using a fast shutter…

A museum show is part storytelling and part conversation. At least, that’s how Emilia Mickevicius sees it. And curating one is a bit like planning a dinner party.
Take, for example, a gallery she…