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architecture, people, and travel photographs by Stephen Trimble
landscape photographs by Steve Mulligan
(Farcountry Press, 2003)
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From the powdery peaks of Mount Ogden to the dramatic formations of Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park, from the historic architecture of Salt Lake City to the native peoples of Utah, photographers Mulligan and Trimble beautifully capture the diverse landscapes and cityscapes of Utah in all seasons in 91 color photographs.
A small jewel of a book - the perfect souvenir of Utah.
photographs by Scott T. Smith and Stephen Trimble
introduction by Holly Mullen
(Farcountry Press, 2007)
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This book shows a Salt Lake City and its surrounding landscape of mountains and desert that represents both the destination seen by tourists and the community lived in by residents. As photographers, Scott and Steve have an eye for the unique and iconic. As Utah residents, they know about neighborhoods and secret glens of open space and tucked-away installations of public art. It’s a winning combination.
Longtime local journalist Holly Mullen provides a witty and pointed introduction to this affectionate photographic tribute to a great American city.
Praise:
"A book that promises to deliver a city’s “impressions” must somehow capture the history, beauty, work, play, and pride of its people. Pulling this off would be the measure of its success. Trimble and Smith have done it. They have captured Salt Lake: its solemnity, its humor, its bright neighborhoods, its brilliant winters, and the clean lines of the mountains that surround it."
Holly Mullen, from the foreword
"A superbly compiled and presented collection...a visual celebration of Salt Lake City, the capital city of Utah, and the Great Salt Lake basin and surrounding Wasatch Mountains. A remarkable album of photographs, many of which rise to the level of visual art. Browsing through the pages of Salt Lake Impressions is the next best thing to actually being there."
Midwest Book Review
photographs by Stephen Trimble
essays by Ann Ronald
(University of Nevada Press, 1995)
Awards:1995 Wilbur Shepperson Book Award, Nevada Humanities Committee
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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 landscape of tint and shadow and aesthetic dimension. In Earthtones, Ronald and Trimble provide a guide to understanding this challenging landscape constructed from vast reaches of the Great Basin Desert and the Mojave Desert. 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.
Praise:
"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
"Mention Nevada, and most people think of one of three things: nuclear testing, the feverish glitter of Las Vegas, or a view of drab, endless valleys and barren mountains glimpsed from a car speeding toward California. Now 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
"Earthtones takes the reader from the lowest deserts to the highest mountains of this unusual state that has such an abundance of public lands for the nature lover. This is a wonderful book and one that should be on the shelf of every library, public or private, that aspires to be complete on the subject of the Great Basin and its environs."
The Bloomsbury Review
photographs by Stephen Trimble
text by Russell P. Hartman
foreword by Clara Lee Tanner
(Northland Publishing, 1987)
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This book celebrates the flowering of Navajo pottery since the 1960s. Jan Musial, a longtime dealer in Navajo art—especially in pottery—brought together a team to create the first book on the evolution of the craft from the utililitarian pine-pitched water jar to the unique, personal work of art. Scholar Russell Hartman, curator of the Navajo Tribal Museum, wrote a text that places pottery in the context of the tribe's history and culture. He also quotes from interviews with twenty contemporary Navajo potters. Trimble photographed these Indian artists and their work with warmth and intimacy.
Praise:
"This fine example of the breaking of a strong and binding tradition in so short a time, a little over twenty years, tells much of what is happening to these Indians today. It reflects their outside contacts, their need for an outlet for their creativity, of their interest in commercialization, and much more. ...In many ways, there is a reflection here of the broad, general trends in southwestern Indian art as a whole—away from tribal to individual styles. This is a revitalization of a ceramic style worth watching."
Clara Lee Tanner, from the foreword
photographs by Stephen Trimble
words by Ekkehart Malotki with Michael Lomatuway’ma
(Northland Publishing, 1987)
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This is the first bilingual presentation (in English and Hopi) of the ancient and powerful Hopi Indian legend of the creation of Sunset Crater. The Ka'nas kachina mingles with mortals, and through a saga of marriage and magic, betrayal and revenge, prosperity and famine, tests their loyalty, brings them to near starvation, and, finally, takes pity on the steadfast survivors.
Essays on the archaeology and geology of Sunset Crater National Monument amplify understanding of the legend.
Praise:
"Photographs by Southwestern photographer Stephen Trimble add vibrancy to a book of genuine beauty."
Arizona Highways
photographs by Stephen Trimble
text by Amy R. Kaplan with Michael Keller
(Mustang Publishers, 1989)
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Inside tips from a longtime resident of Nepal who is sensitive to the culture of this remarkable Himalayan country. Most Himalayan trekking is more an encounter with Nepalese culture than a wilderness experience, and this book helps make trekking in Nepal a satisfying experience with Nepalese people as well as a chance to see Mount Everest Base Camp or Annapurna. Trimble's photographs come from his 1981-1982 visit to Nepal.
Slideshow:
bristlecone pine, Mt. Moriah, Nevada, from "Earthtones"
Indian paintbrush, Jarbidge Wilderness, Nevada, from "Earthtones"
Dale Chihuly sculpture, Abravanel Hall, Salt Lake City, from "Salt Lake Impressions"
Kate Davis, Navajo potter, from "Navajo Pottery"
mani stones below Dhaulagiri, Larjung, from "Nepal Trekker's Handbook"
Sunset Crater National Monument, from "Earth Fire"
pioneer barn & deer, Capitol Reef, from "Utah Impressions"
mountain biking, Stansbury Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah, from "Salt Lake Impressions"
University of Utah football, from "Utah Impressions"
cattle drive, Big Smokey Mountain Road, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, from "Utah Impressions"
"The Last Supper," Rhyolite, Nevada, from "Earthtones"
Spiral Jetty, Great Salt Lake, from "Salt Lake Impressions"