Approximately 75 pages with about 69 color images. This work is ENTIRELY pictorial.
The San Xavier Mission is located about nine miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona. To get there from downtown Tucson take I-10 south to I-19 and exit at exit 92 west. The mission is about one mile from the exit on the west side of the highway.
Known as the "White Dove of the Desert," it was built at a centuries-old Indian settlement of the Native Americans Tohono O'odham people (formerly known as Papago). In 1692 the Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, founded the mission as well as others in the Sonoran Desert chain. The original mission church was located about two miles away from the current mission and was vulnerable to Apache Indian attacks and was finally destroyed by them around 1770.
The author began photography and photo-journalism in early 1963 when he accepted an offer from his local newspaper to write about and photograph sports events at the Arizona high school where he was a junior. After a stint in the service, he had an opportunity to study photography and printing techniques with Bernard Hoffman, a true gentleman and scholar, and one of the earliest staff photographers for Life Magazine.
Since that time he has had thousands of photographs and hundreds of articles published by more than 60 national and international periodicals. He was also a contributing editor for one of them for more than ten years. Topics ran the gamut from professional sports, medicine, archeology, and photography to science.
After twenty years away from Arizona he returned in 1985 and it has been the base from which all his photographic excursions are launched. Along with many others he has embraced digital photography but can still be seen, from time to time, peering through the ground glass of a large format camera, hoisting a large medium format 6x7, or indeed still using a 35mm film camera.
The photographer currently has fine art photography on exhibit at The Center for Fine Arts in Globe, Arizona, and is currently represented by more than ten stock photo agencies where he has more than 13,000 photographs available for commercial use.
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