Lasting Light
125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
2006 Southwest Books of the Year: "Splashy, colorful, thoughtful...this luminous volume is a celebration... an exceptional book."
2007 New Mexico Book Award, Best Arts Book
2007 Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in independent publishing
2007 Western Heritage Award, Outstanding Photography Book. National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
2007 Finalist, ForeWord Magazine Photography Book of the Year
"...the best book of photographs I've seen in years. Trimble's accomplished style with words doesn't let down his pictures or his vision." —The Durango Herald
"The vast spaces and close confines of the Grand Canyon...are given their due in Lasting Light. This book, made all the more beautiful by author Stephen Trimble's words, is an homage complet to a much-loved space." —Bookpage
"This wonderful book is much more than a coffee-table collection of beautiful Grand Canyon scenes in splendid color. Trimble's historical narrative provides important background to contextualize these photographers within their changing times while the biographies and portfolios serve as mini-seminars with each artist." —Journal of the West
"The story behind each photo is as lovely as the photograph. You can’t help but touch the pages, hoping somehow to touch the past." —BookPleasures.com
Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography brings readers into the hearts of great photographers as they devote years to seeing, really seeing, the Grand Canyon. Their images fill this book, and their stories bring to life their pictures from the 125 years that photographers have explored the Canyon.
Stephen Trimble interviewed 21 of the finest contemporary Grand Canyon photographers, and these profiles bring to life the relationship between artist and landscape, between dedicated artists and an American icon they have helped to create. A fascinating narrative history of photography at Grand Canyon places these contemporary photographers in context. Lasting Light celebrates what all of us learn every time we peer through a viewfinder at this enduring treasure we call Grand Canyon.
Contributing photographers:
The Early & Middle Years: Timothy O’Sullivan, Jack Hillers, Robert Brewster Stanton, Ellsworth and Emery Kolb, Eliot Porter, Ansel Adams, Josef Muench, Ernst Haas, Philip Hyde, Bob Clemenz, Dick Dietrich, David Muench
The Contemporaries: Jerry Jacka, Robert McDonald, John Running, Jack Dykinga, James Cowlin, John Blaustein, Gary Ladd, Sue Bennett, Tom Bean, Alfredo Conde & Sherri Curtis, Liz Hymans, Tom Till, Larry Ulrich, Michael Collier, Stephen Trimble, Mark Klett, Michael “Nick” Nichols, Randy Prentice, Tom Brownold, George H.H. Huey, Dugald Bremner, Kate Thompson
Extending the View: David Edwards, Larry Lindahl, Raechel Running, Marc Muench, Christine Keith, Geoff Gourley, Kyle George, Paul Leatherbury, Mike Buccheit, Jay Showers
(Northland Publishing, 2006)
Reading for University of Utah travel program (full hour of images from the book)
Tribute to Philip Hyde and "Hyde's Wall"
The Lasting Light photo exhibit opened at the historic Kolb Studio at Grand Canyon in Summer 2006. The show toured nationally through the Smithsonian SITES program beginning in 2008. When the California University of Pennsylvania hung the exhibit in Fall 2011, Steve spoke on campus to an auditorium filled with middle-schoolers, a graphic design class, and the university trustees.
