New Mexico: A Photographic Tribute
"John Annerino turns his attention to the Land of Enchantment's epic landscapes in this handsome coffee-table book. He has compiled 50 images and paired each with a quotation from a notable author. Here's D.H. Lawrence: "In the magnificent fierce morning one sprang awake, a new part of the soul woke up suddenly, and the old world gave way to the new." Annerino himself brings fresh eyes to this collection of stunning images of buttes, ruins and churches, many cast in golden and rosy sunset hues. Annerino captures the state in its most alluring lights."--New Mexico Magazine"Celebrating the colorful legacy of New Mexico's first 100 years of statehood, this book is a stunning collection of the territorial state's scenic wonders, majestic landscapes, and cultural icons the Land of Enchantment is known for worldwide. Paired with each of these indelible images are literary quotes drawn from the records of New Mexico's early explorers, missionaries, Native Americans, writers, and photographers."--New Mexico Centennial Commission, Official Project"When Willa Cather wrote her endearing novel in 1927,Death Comes for the Archbishop, she described my own feelings that surfaced while tracing echoes of the past across New Mexico's beloved land: "They whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning." Hypnotized by the soothing sounds of the Rio Grande, I counted myself lucky to be among them, my spirit set free in luminous twilight."--Santa Fe New Mexican