Ernest Knee in New Mexico
Subtitle: photographs 1930-1940s
By: photographs by Ernest Knee ; edited by Dana Knee ; essay by Catherine Williamson ; with a foreword by Robert Ewing.
Contributors: Knee, Dana.; Museum of New Mexico.
Publisher: Museum of New Mexico Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Knee, Ernest, 1907-1982 -- Exhibitions.; Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.; Landscape photography -- Exhibitions.; Southwest, New -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.; Pictorial works
Description: Ernest Knee (1907-1982) was a gifted photographer and Howard Hughes's personal photographer. He was the first cameraman to record Angel Falls. Montreal-born Knee first visited Santa Fe in 1931 and soon set up a darkroom on Camino del Monte Sol, joining the ranks of a flourishing art community. He became friends with many artists and photographers of his time, including Edward Weston, Gustave Baumann, Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Laura Gilpin. Knee's landscape work remains a primary achievement in New Mexico's photographic history. Dana Knee has restored and edited some five thousand large-format negatives, many never printed by the photographer in his lifetime, selecting over one hundred images for the first published retrospective of Knee's work.