CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/3/2018

Irresistible 'Arizona Trips' by David Hurn

This 1979 photograph of the desert between Phoenix and Tuscon—the major area of potential development—is reproduced from Arizona Trips, Reel Art Press’s remarkable new collection of photographs by David Hurn. Largely made over the course of a one-year UK/USA Bicentennial Fellowship to photograph in the state of Arizona, the images gathered in this concise but impossible-to-put-down volume are universally fascinating. Football games, wild horse roundups, tarantula races, senior beauty pageants, retiree roping competitions, animal cemeteries, demolition derbies, Mexican weddings, Apache baby contests and winter cacti covered with protective paper cups are just a few of the pictures that have made this book an end-of-year favorite for CNN, The Guardian, It’s Nice That and more.