ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Fitch has been a photographer since the late 1960s and has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Princeton University, and, most recently, the College of Santa Fe and Santa Fe University of Art and Design. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1973 and 1975) and the last National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant, awarded in 1981. He also received the Eliot Porter Fellowship in 1999. He is the author of Diesels and Dinosaurs: Photographs from the American Highway (Long Run Press, 1976), Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, with essays by Merril Gilfillan, Kathleen Howe, and Evelyn Schlatter (University of New Mexico Press, 2002), and Vanishing Vernacular: Western Landmarks (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2018). His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Yale University, among many others. His Website is stevefitch.com.

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTOR

Katherine Ware is Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art and has served as Curator of Photographs at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Assistant Curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum, among other roles. She has organized exhibitions and written about the work of a range of historic and contemporary artists for more than thirty years, including Man Ray: 1890–1976 (Taschen, 2000), Elemental Landscapes: Photographs by Harry Calahan (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001), and Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2011).