Jerome Impressions: An Impressionistic Journey

Approximately 75 pages with more than 70 color images. This work is ENTIRELY pictorial. Jerome was once the fourth largest town in Arizona and owed its existance to copper mining and was once know as the most wicked town in the west. The town almost became a ghost town by 1953 when the mine was closed due to lack of demand and low pricing. The town is roughly 20 miles west of Sedona The town is becoming a favorite tourist destination with a growing number of hotels, resorts, and four-wheel drive tours able to accommodate considerable numbers. For Arizona the average temperature is considered moderate as the town’s elevation is approximately 5,200 feet allowing for moderate winters and summers. 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.