Blessed By Light
Visions of the Colorado Plateau
"This is far and away the most beautiful book we’ve seen of late. It isn’t just the photographs, which are magnificent, or the text, which is fine, or the typography, which is elegant, or the printing which is as good as it comes, it is the loving care with which the book was put together as a whole." —The Guilfoyle Report
"Be careful—if you live in a city where skies are cluttered with buildings and gray with pollution—you could drown in the pure beauty of this book." —Rocky Mountain News
"When a book purports to highlight an area as spectacular and subtle as the Colorado Plateau, one expects commensurate photographic and literary grandeur. This book delivers it." —The Bloomsbury Review
"Stephen Trimble has created an anthology of visions where the words of our most talented writers create imagined landscapes for us, only to have them come true with every photograph." —Brooke Williams, Wasatch Sports Guide
"The images in this book of photographs are selected with care and precision, each one popping off the page with its own message. This is not a book of cliché photographs to be looked at once and set aside, but a book which can be a new experience each time it is opened. Light is the common thread of the book—glorious and subtle light. But the book’s highest redeeming quality could possibly be the magical intertwining of prose and image." —St. George Magazine
Photographs from a generation who came to the canyon country of the Four Corners as park rangers, teachers, river guides, naturalists, and backpackers—for personal fulfillment rather than as artists or commercial photographers. Everything they know about themselves and the land is distilled in these photographs. They transcend the literal. The common thread is light—the magical, iridescent light that happens when clear air, naked rock, and sun collide.
The book pairs thematic portfolios (Rock, Water, Canyons, Mesas, Plateaus, Mountains, and Time) with words from a century of the region's most eloquent writers.
Photographers include Mary Allen, Tom Bean, Michael Collier, Jeff Gnass, Philip Hyde, William Neill, Galen Rowell, John Running, Jeremy Schmidt, Tom Till, Stephen Trimble, Larry Ulrich, and Mark Zarn.
(Gibbs M. Smith/Peregrine Smith Books, 1986)
