Earthtones
A Nevada Album
photographs by Stephen Trimble
essays by Ann Ronald
1995 Wilbur Shepperson Book Award, Nevada Humanities Committee
"Earthtones is a wonderful introduction to the mystical, vastly misunderstood, and hidden Silver State. Trimble has uncovered a Nevada at once ghostly, innocent, and sublime." —Small Press
"A perfect complement between text and photograph." —Nevada Historical Quarterly
"Ann Ronald, a scholar of nature writing, and Stephen Trimble, a distinguished photographer of the landscapes and native peoples of the West, have combined forces to show us another Nevada. The Silver State they know is full of color and life, rich with history both natural and human, abundant with lessons for the earth-centered traveler eager for wisdom and rejuvenation." — ISLE
"Together they paint a picture of the other Nevada that is unforgettable in its clarity. Seldom does the collaboration between writer and photographer produce results of such beauty and hope." —Southwest Book Views
Too many visitors to the Silver State never see Ann Ronald's and Stephen Trimble's Nevada: teal sky and a sea of fragrant sage, mountain mahogany and a crimson mass of claret cup cactus, a dust-blown sunset of vermilion, orange, and gold.
More colorful than a neon display on Las Vegas Boulevard, Nevada is one vast desert of tint and shadow and aesthetic dimension. In Earthtones, Ronald and Trimble provide a guide to understanding this challenging landscape. Their love for the land shines through in six vivid personal essays and sixty-seven boldly emotional color photographs.
In independent but interwoven visions, Ronald and Trimble cherish the same Nevada, an astonishing place to anyone familiar with the mistaken stereotypes that plague the state. Trimble's pictures capture the spirit of this spare, yet beautiful, country.
(University of Nevada Press, 1995)
