Museum of New Mexico Pr.
Titles appearing in Reference — Research Book News — December 2011
Light in the desert; photographs from the Monastery of Christ in the Desert.
O'Brien, Tony.
Museum of New Mexico Pr., ©2011 111 p. $50.00 BX2525
978-0-89013-533-4
Rhythmic, evocative, b&w photos, presented full page in an oversize format (13.5x10 inches) offer intimate glimpses of life at a Benedictine monastery near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Photographer O'Brien returned from having been made captive in Afghanistan while on assignment for Life Magazine in 1989. He found both solace and a photo assignment for himself, participating for a year as a resident at the monastery. Complementing the images, text consists of an essay by poet Christopher Merrill and a foreword by Mary Anne Redding of the Museum of New Mexico (where O'Brien's photos will be exhibited until early 2013). (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
