Devil's highway / Joan Myers and William Debuys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Joan, 1944- author.

DeBuys, William, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Landscape photography--West (U.S.).

Landscape photography.

Myers, Joan, 1944-.

Myers, Joan.

West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

West (U.S.).

El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. and Mexico)--Pictorial works.

El Camino del Diablo (Ariz. and Mexico).

West United States.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

155 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : Brisco Center for American History, [2022]

Summary:

With this haunting new collection of photographs, Joan Myers continues the decades-long journey she began in Where the Buffalo Roamed (with Lucy Lippard), documenting the changing landscape and culture of the American West. The images in this new collection are more personal, more elegiac?and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, and the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America. The themes she examines are reflected in The Devil?s Highway, a powerfully evocative short story by Pulitzer finalist William deBuys, first published in 1992 in Story magazine and reproduced here for the first time. Myers and deBuys previously collaborated on Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-Down California, which inspired the highly acclaimed film, The Colorado.0Myers has spent much of her time roaming the American West, but has also worked in India, the Canary Islands, Antarctica, Java, Sicily, Sardinia, Hawaii, and more. Her extensive photo archive is now housed at the Briscoe Center for American History on the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781953480156

1953480152

OCLC:

1282596177

Publisher Number:

99991252133