Jack Parsons is a renowned photographer and cinematographer from Santa Fe whose film credits include "The New Range Wars," an Audubon special, "Painted Earth," produced by the Getty Museum of Art in association with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the prize-winning "A Weave of Time," and numerous documentaries on Southwestern art and culture supported by the National Endowment of the Arts. His photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including Actuel, Forbes, Geo, National Geographic magazine and books, and The New York Times, and he has published more than fifteen books of photography on the American Southwest, including the seminal 1993 Santa Fe Style. In 2006, he was honored with the New Mexico Governor's Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts. Frederick C. Turner is professor of political science at the Univerisity of Connecticut.
"In the midst of dozens of photography and filmmaking projects,
Jack Parsons has taken pictures of all kinds of things. Just
recently, as he culled images from his collection of thousands of
slides for a new book, Iluminaciones, his 17th..."--Paul Weideman
"Pasatiempo"
"Framed and recorded in time, in luminous depth beyond their
surfaces, Parsons's photographs reveal inscapes, with more to say
than can be spoken."--Godfrey Reggio, Director of
Koyaanisquatsi
"What Jack Parsons has learned from a life of photographing the
ordinary and extraordinary in our daily environment he now passes
on to us in Iluminaciones. This is a quietly beautiful book full of
revelations for those who share his faith that images can teach us
the world."--Lucy R. Lippard, author of Undermining: A Wild Ride
through Land Use, Politics and Art in the Changing West
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