Río A Photographic Journey Down the Old Río Grande - Querencias Series

Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rìo Grande of the American Southwest. The dynamic Rìo 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 Rìo 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.

ISBN:	9780826356895
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:	University of New Mexico Press
Published date:	30 Sep 2016
DEWEY:	978.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xvii, 123
Weight:	578g
Height:	208mm
Width:	256mm
Spine width:	13mm

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