Timeless Images

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Since its inaugUíal issue as a road-construction gazette in 1925. Arizona Highways magaziné has become known around the world, acclaimed as the nation's premier state publication. Throngh the dramatic impact of its pages. the scenic wonders of Arizona, from the Grand Canyon to the Sonoran Desert, and from remote Indián reservations to forested mountains, have hecome familiar to tourists of all descriptions - RV sightseers, wilderness hackpackers, and armchair fantasizers. Black-and-white images told the stoiy initially. to be supplanted by breathtaking color as Arizona Highways led the transition into color scenic photography. Milestones were plentiful along the way: the first color cover in 1938, the first full-color photographic portfolio in 1940, the first all-color issue of any nationally circulated consumer magaziné in the United States in 1946. Issues of Arizona Highways were collected as works of art, and somé became "collectors' items" in the truest sense of that worn... Tovább

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Since its inaugUíal issue as a road-construction gazette in 1925. Arizona Highways magaziné has become known around the world, acclaimed as the nation's premier state publication. Throngh the dramatic impact of its pages. the scenic wonders of Arizona, from the Grand Canyon to the Sonoran Desert, and from remote Indián reservations to forested mountains, have hecome familiar to tourists of all descriptions - RV sightseers, wilderness hackpackers, and armchair fantasizers. Black-and-white images told the stoiy initially. to be supplanted by breathtaking color as Arizona Highways led the transition into color scenic photography. Milestones were plentiful along the way: the first color cover in 1938, the first full-color photographic portfolio in 1940, the first all-color issue of any nationally circulated consumer magaziné in the United States in 1946. Issues of Arizona Highways were collected as works of art, and somé became "collectors' items" in the truest sense of that worn phrase. Hxcellent writing and superb drawing and painting have always been present. But, above all. the magaziné became a showcase for great photography, and to thousands of loyal readers. many of its contributing photographers became household names - Manley, Adams. Muench, ancl others. Hnndreds of photographic images published over a 65-year span were reviewed to come up with a collection that spans the wide variety of Arizona Highways subject matter and meets the test implicit in the book s title, "Timeless Images.. Many older color transparencies had deteriorated with time; somé others eould not be found. But. in the end, the challenge was to reduce an impressh e array of "timeless images" to a number manageable for this publication. This, then, is not a complete collection. but rather a representation of the finest work of the finest creative talents in the photographic arts - 65 v ears of Timeless Images From Arizona Highways. Other books abont Arizona and the Southwest are arailahle through Arizona I lighways. ForaJ'ree eatalog. eall toll-J'ree nationwide 1-800-5454.12. or write to Arizona I lighways at 20.19 West Lcwis Avenne, Phoenix. AZ X5009-2891.
Róbert C. Dyer, author of Timeless Images Front Arizona Hightrctys, has been an Arizona resident more than 40 years, the last 15 in Prescott, where he is a free-lance writer. editor, and publisher. Dyer wrote for newspapers in Texas before joining the staff of Tbc Phoenix Gazette, where he was a eolumnist and assistant city editor. After a stint in advertising and corporate public relations. he returned to Tbe Gazette and wrote a column while supervising feature sections for the newspaper. Dyer was editor and publisher of The Prescott Paper kit three years. a period in which it received major awards for excellence in all categories from the Arizona Newspapers Association. In addition to free-lancing, he operates his own publishing company Manzanita Press. For Arizona Highways, he edited the Arizona Highways Heritage Cookbook, published in 1988. J. Peter Mortimer, photography editor of Timeless Images, has an association with Arizona Highways going back to an internship while he was a student at Arizona State University. He is a former picture editor of the magaziné and has contributed many images of his own to Arizona Highways. An ASU graduate, Mortimer has taught photojournalism at the university and, since 1977, has been director of photography for the Summer Media Workshop at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In conjunction with the research and image selection for this book, he was photography editor for an exhibition, alsó called Timeless Images, presented in several locations throughout Arizona. Gary Bennett. designer of Timeless Images [rom Arizona Highways, has been art director of Arizona Highways since 1978, a period in which the magaziné has won numerous design awards. A native Arizonán, he is a painter as well as a publication designer, and his work has been displayed in several galleries. Bennett graduated from Northern Arizona University with a bachelor's clegree in fine árts and has a master's degree from the University of Arizona. Timeless Images is the most recent of several Arizona Highways books for which Dean Smith has edited the text. Others have intiuded Arizona Highways Album: The Koad to Statehood (1987), Travel Arizona. The Back Roads (1989), and Arizona Ptíthways (1989). 1 le alsó has been a frequent contributor to the magaziné through the years, and is the author of 10 books on Arizona subjects. Most recent of Smith's published books are Brothers Five: The Babhitts of Arizona and The Goldwaters of Vissza