Adobe Walls
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Adobe Walls
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture And Enhancement
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, was reinvented to attract modernists and cultural tourists in the 1920's and 30's. Its artistic legacy is undimmed, with new artists inspired by its light and landscape.
By the late 1910s, Taos, New Mexico, had become an important outpost of American art. Scores of east coast painters travelled there each summer, and their touring exhibitions opened the nation's eyes to the indigenous cultures and landscape of the south-west. But as Taos grew in fame and popularity, Santa Fe, the nearby state capital, withered.
The city's elders watched in dismay as charabancs of visitors, their pockets bulging with Yankee dollars, rattled through the dusty streets on their way north to Taos. Something had to be done. The city needed an exotic allure as powerful as Taos's for the Anglo foreigner .
They decided to impose a building code: all new structures should be designed in the Pueblo revival style modeled on the local Indian pueblos' use of wood beams and sun-baked adobe. It worked: Santa Fe, a city of adobe, started drawing its own "cultural tourists".
-Art and adobe: how Santa Fe changed the US's artistic landscape
By Henry Shukman
- The Guardian, Friday 21 June 2013
Original photograph made on "the Square" in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Copyright 2015 Jon Burch Photography
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January 12th, 2015
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Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Steven Bateson
The New Mexico Land of Enchantment Group is honored that you chose to submit your work to the group and we are proud to feature your magnificent image on the Homepage in the Featured Images.
Bob and Nadine Johnston
. . . Let the beauty we love, be what we Capture in works of Art. . . .. Congratulations Your work was chosen to be Featured in the All SouthWest Art and Artists out of 3570+ images that have been submitted to the Group.
Doug Matthews
Fabulous capture. Just the right amount of snow and contrast, yet still slightly monochrome.
Gary Richards
Jon, great eye and capture of this abstraction of the adobe with all those lines and textures!
Bob Christopher
Hi Jon...I like your image. Love the strong lines throughout the frame. Well done...Cheers Bob f/v
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