Gathers portraits, self-portraits, and nudes by the California photographer, and discusses the development of her style

Judy Dater: Twenty Years

Arts & Photography

Enyeart, James L.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

University of Arizona Press

Willard Van Dyke worked his way through the twentieth century chasing two illusive muses--photography and film. They were illusive because their powers, reality, and abstraction, are morphic extremes that both exalt and mislead artists who believe that harnessing one will overcome the other. 
The setting for Van Dyke's life story is thus connected to the story of how these two muses changed the way the world was perceived. Willard Van Dyke stepped into the early twentieth century clamor asking for photography's recognition as an art form. He was among the few to bridge both photography and film in the 1920s. Through his broad-reaching vision he provided history with significant achievements in both. His works are admired by the practitioners of both mediums, and he is acclaimed in the literature of both fields. He was driven by an insatiable desire to effect change and a compulsion to gain power over systems and ideas in art and society alike. 
Van Dyke's place in history is secure based largely on works created during the 1930s and 1940s in close association with colleagues like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston in photography, and Ralph Steiner and Pare Lorentz in film. Willard Van Dyke's story is about unrelenting devotion to social consciousness and artistic integrity, draped like thick veils over his own failings and emotional isolation.

Willard Van Dyke: Changing the World Through Photography and Film

Humor & Entertainment

University of New Mexico Press

The American Southwest has shaped the lives and work of many artists and literary figures over the last century―Georgia O’Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, to name a few―individuals unquestionably drawn to the unrivaled landscape, moved to express its beauty through the written word or through their art, and forever altered by the experience.The survey of photographers and photography in the Southwest between 1870 and 1970 begins with Timothy O’Sullivan and other late nineteenth-century expedition photographers and ends with the color landscape photography of Eliot Porter. In between are Laura Gilpin’s portraits of Navajos taken during the 1930s and the documentary images of rural Hispanic communities by Farm Security Administration photographers John Collier Jr. and Russell Lee in the 1940s.James L. Enyeart, one of the nation’s most distinguished curators and photographic historians, contemplates the common affinity for the landscape and cultural ambiance of the region by these visionary photographers, even though separated by style, intent, and time.Nineteen photographers in all are represented―also including Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston―along with 102 photographs.

Land, Sky, and All That Is Within: Visionary Photographers in the Southwest: Visionary Photographers in the Southwest

History & Criticism

Museum of New Mexico Press

Henry Holmes Smith: Collected Writings, 1935-1979

Literature & Fiction

Center for Creative Photography

Oversized book containing 68 color plates of Christopher Burkett photographs taken with a Hasselblad camera over twenty-five years. Photos are of our natural world - forests, plants and water in diverse states such as Alaska, Virginia and California. Essay by James Enyeart.

Resplendent Light

Individual Artists

West Wind Arts Inc

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