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Unheard stories, unseen lives: A review of Southern Paiute, A Portrait

William Logan Hebner and photographer Michael L. Plyler document Native American lives.

by Teresa Jordan, Mar 18, 2011
Depth afield

Why are photographs of the Western landscape so essential to our lives?

by Cameron Walker, Jan 28, 2011
High Country Views, A conversation with Michael Berman

Writer Pat Toomay talks with landscape photographer Michael Berman about his craft and the draw of the desert.

by Cally Carswell and Stephanie Paige Ogburn, Jan 19, 2011
His photographs trace the passage of time

Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago

by Renee Guillory, Sep 30, 2010
Our dirty past, our dirty present

Soon after the EPA was founded 40 years ago, it began photographing American environmental problems for its Documerica Project.

by Staff, Apr 12, 2010
Power of the picture

High Country News photographer Morgan Heim joins the International League of Conservation Photographers to document the gasfields and the wildlands around Pinedale, Wyo.

by Jonathan Thompson, Jul 21, 2008
Finding beauty in devastation

In his richly illustrated book Boy Wonder & the Big Burns, Montana photographer Chris Peterson finds beauty in the aftermath of fire – and in his relationship with his autistic son.

by Ray Ring, Mar 17, 2008
William Henry Jackson's 'The Pioneer Photographer'

William Henry Jackson’s ‘The Pioneer Photographer’ by Bob Blair is a delightful coffee-table book that collects the photos, map sketches, paintings and notes of the West’s famous 19th century photographer

by Staff, Jun 13, 2005
The Mountains Know Arizona

In The Mountains Know Arizona, Michael Collier and Rose Houk combine photographs and words to create a spectacular homage to the mountains of Arizona

by Staff, May 02, 2005
Down — but far from out — in Drummond

In Drummond: Ranch Life in the West, Jill Brody uses photographs and interviews to paint a vivid portrait of life in a hardscrabble Montana ranching town

by Betsy Marston, May 02, 2005