Art for the Sake of Park
Above: Cavates, North Wall of Frijoles Canyon, 2014. IHAD TURNED 77 and figured my days as a national park artist-in-residence were behind me. I’d been lucky enough to earn 11 such postings, enabling…
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Posts From: August 2016
Living the Dream
Left: The Big Skylight Cave, in the Big Tubes Area at El Malpais National Monument. Right : White Sands. PHOTO BY KENNAN HARVEY, LAURENCE PARENT WHEN I WAS A KID, my family squeezed every penny. This…
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People Power
Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura is revered in his hometown for Korean War heroics (right) and displays the Medal of Honor that President Eisenhower gave to him in 1953 (left). THERE'S A REASON the…
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Peak and Prairies
Above: Meadows reach up to mountains outside of Las Vegas. PHOTO BY INGA HENDRICKSON IN LAS VEGAS and the adjoining Mora Valley, New Mexico’s vast high plains meet the soaring Sangre de Cristo…
Read MoreStorytellers | August 2016
EDIE DILLMAN Art Director / Associate Publisher Edie Dillman is the visual voice of New Mexico Magazine, stamping a redesign in our January issue this year and setting a high standard for photography…
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IT PAINS ME TO ADMIT that no matter how well we succeed at bringing New Mexico locales alive with vivid language and stunning photography, there is absolutely no substitute for hitting the road and…
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Park Central
Upward bound at Bandelier. Photograph by Kennan Harvey. On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, which celebrates its centennial with free…
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