No comments about El Gringo;: Or, New Mexico & her people,.

No comments about Listen to the wind--: Ghost towns of New Mexico.

No comments about New Mexico '99: The Complete Guide With Pueblos, Cities, Ancient Ruins and the Santa Fe Trail (Fodor's Gold Guides).

2 comments about Open Range and Parking Lots: Southwest Photographs (University of Arizona Southwest Center series).

1. This is a great book, highly recommended. Hancock and McNamee capture the essence of the strange, mirage-like Southwest, full of ghosts and forgotten dreams.



2. The Southwest US is clearly a great place to take photos, dramatic open spaces and weather plus all those wonderful examples of the hand of man in the environment, mostly for negative reasons it must be said. It is a pity though that Virgil Hancock just doesn't manage to do the area justice. Of the fifty-two photos in the book so many of them seem to lack a focal point (or maybe they are just poorly cropped?) so that the book, I feel, is no more than a collection of ordinary photos.
   
   As the area is so kind to photographers there are some images here that are just super with good compositions, cropping and color, for example, two store fronts in Las Vegas, NM (plate four) a chained tree stump on a trailer (plate thirty-five) or the Jungle bar in Phoenix, AZ (plate forty-one) there are at least another five or so but I feel they were let down by their cropping.
   
   I can recommend these three photo books of the Southwest, Wim Wenders 'Written in the West' (ISBN 3823854690) Troy Paiva's 'Lost America' (ISBN 076031490X) with plenty of stunning night-time photos, presented unfortunately in a rather mediocre designed book and Gerd Kittel's 'Southwest USA' (ISBN 0500541213) eighty beautiful photos shown in a lovely classic photo-book format.
   
   One final point about 'Open Range and Parking Lots' concerns the production, none of the photos have their captions with the image, you have to constantly turn to the back caption page to read them and the page numbering is just plain silly. The first printed number that appears is four, sixteen pages from the start of the book, the five photos that are on these pages are referred on the back caption page as 'N.b. Plates 1-5 appear on pages iii-xvi', predictably there are no Roman numerals on any of these sixteen pages. As I said the numbering is just plain silly!

No comments about The Gila Loop: a recipe for fun in New Mexico.(FAVORITERIDE): An article from: Rider.

No comments about A little journey to some strange places and peoples in our southwestern land (New Mexico and Arizona.): For home and school, intermediate and upper grades (Library of travel).

No comments about Farmington/Durango/Cortez, New Mexico (Rand McNally Streets Of...).

No comments about Sun, sand ... and safety: Mexico's deserted beaches have made tourism officials look for a new angle after the Sept. 11 attacks. (Terror Fallout).(Brief Article): An article from: Business Mexico.

No comments about Rand, McNally & Co.'s new guide to the Pacific coast: Santa FeÌ route : California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.

No comments about New Mexico: A New Guide to the Colorful State.