Visions Underground: Carlsbad Caverns Through the Artist’s Eye

Description

Author: Manno, Lois

Publisher: Co-published by Rio Grande Books and The National Speleological Association

Pub Date: 2009

Binding: Paperback, with flaps

Condition: Good to Very Good.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Appears unused.

Notes: How artists and photographers have seen Carlsbad Caverns since 1924, when Will Shuster was the first to paint images of the Caverns.  Also a history of cave exploration (see co-publisher), and a brief history of the evolution of photography.  Art, photography, drawings, woodcuts.  One of New Mexico’s National Park gems (Chaco Canyon, White Sands, Gila Cliff Dwellings, et al).  Really a well done book.