Author: Outlet
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517072660
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: Katherine G. Morrissey
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816546053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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As cultural documents, as works of art, and as historical records, photographs of 1930s Arizona tell a remarkable story. They capture enduring visions of the Depression that linger in cultural memory: dust storms, Okies on their way to California, breadlines, and ramshackle tent cities. They also reflect a more particular experience and a unique perspective. This book places the work of local Arizonans alongside that of federal photographers both to illuminate the impact of the Depression on the state’s distinctive racial and natural landscapes and to show the influence of differing cultural agendas on the photographic record. The more than one hundred images—by well-known photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Laura Gilpin as well as by an array of less familiar photographers—represent a variety of purposes and perspectives, from public to personal, political to promotional. Six essays and three photo-essays bring together prominent authorities in history, the arts, and other fields who provide diverse perspectives on this period in Arizona and American history. Viewed together, the words and images capture a Depression-era Arizona bustling with activity as federally funded construction projects and seasonal agricultural jobs brought migrants and newcomers to the state. They convey the celebrations and the struggles of commercial photographers, archaeologists, city folks, farmers, tourists, native peoples and others in these hard times. As the economic strains of the decade reverberated through the state, local photographers documented the lives of Arizona residents—including those frequently overlooked by historians. As this book persuasively shows, photographs can conceal as much as they reveal. A young Mexican American girl stands in front of a backdrop that hides the outhouse behind her, a deeply moving image for what it suggests about the efforts of her family to conceal their economic circumstances. Yet this image is a perfect metaphor for all the photographs in this book: stories remain hidden, but when viewers begin to question what they cannot see, pictures resonate more loudly than ever before. This book is a history of Arizona written from the photographic record, offering a point of view that may differ from the written record. From the images and the insights of the authors, we can gain a new appreciation of how one state—and its indomitable people—weathered our nation’s toughest times.

Author: Joaquin B. Oviedo Class of 1953
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595319297
Category : Morenci (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Morenci Memories is a nostalgic look at a place in southeastern Arizona that no longer exists: the copper mining town of "old" Morenci. Once a community of about 5000 people, it was reduced to rubble, scooped out and filled back in with copper landfill waste. Morenci Memories includes stories of early Morenci history that the author's parents used to relate as he was growing up as well as memories of the town during WWII. It is filled with the photographs he took and the memories the photos bring back. It ends with a series of pictures taken as the town was being dismantled.

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Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 1565794354
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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When paired with the historic images of 19th and 20th century photographers, Arizona photographer Allen Dutton's modern-day images reveal the changes that have shaped the state's landscape during the past 100-plus years. To illustrate these sometimes drastic, sometimes subtle differences, Allen searched the state to locate the precise spots from which to rephotograph the scenes captured by his predecessors--endeavoring to achieve the same angles, perspectives, and lighting as in the early photographs.

Author: Ron Quinn
Publisher: BZB Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1939050405
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 155

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Searching for hidden treasures in the Tubac and Tumacocori mountains, few have ever heard of, we discovered places that have never been visited by others to this day. The four of us finally unearthed a medium-size buried treasure south of Tucson, Arizona, which consisted of 82 pounds of Spanish gold bullion.

Author: Outlet
Publisher: Crescent
ISBN: 9780517629215
Category : Arizona
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Presents over 100 color photographs of Arizona towns, cities, and natural wonders.

Author: Anne Hodges Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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A Mormon pioneer, a gold prospector, an Apache scout, a cowboy, a Black civil rights activist, and Barry Goldwater are among the Arizonans who examine their state's history and development through personal narratives.

Author: Susan A. Crane
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some—possibly considerable—mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital "n." But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating. When Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens—for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.

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ISBN:
Category : Ajo (Ariz.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Numerous photographs accompanied by texts from the residents themselves present a portrait of the ethnically segregated "Mexican town" and "Indian village" sections of Ajo, Arizona in the early 20th century.

Author: Anne Hodges Morgan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780816510153
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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A Mormon pioneer, a gold prospector, an Apache scout, a cowboy, a Black civil rights activist, and Barry Goldwater are among the Arizonans who examine their state's history and development through personal narratives