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A photograph of a rancher and his horse on a roadside in the desert. A motorcycle can be seen behind the pair. June 1973 |
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A photograph of a woman selling red chiles out of the back of her car in Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 1985 |
A photograph of a corner hotel and store in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The photograph was taken in a skid row in Albuquerque.
February 1972
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A photograph of people gathering outside a cafe in a skid row in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two men with cowboy hats talk outside the cafe. January 1970 |
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Photograph of an adobe church with two bell towers. Tree boughs hang down at the top of the image. A hill rises behind the church. Two figures explore the court area in front of the wall. Handwritten caption by Paul Groth reads: "[Chimayo, NM]". July 1969 |
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Photograph of a small, square, one-story abandoned house in the rural desert of New Mexico. The windows are broken and boarded. Debris of wooden boards and shelves surround the exterior. A small smoke stack sits on the top center of the tin roof. The landscape around the house is dirt with rolling hills and brush behind taken on a sunny day with clear, blue sky. Slide is very dusty. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "New Mexico". June 1965 |
A photograph of the signage in front of Bajito Low Rider shop in the South Valley of Albuquerque.
January 1986
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A photograph of a man next to a car with a trunk full of mechanic tools. A big red box filled with tools reads "Juan's Auto Service". September 1985 |
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A photograph of the Iceburg Cafe in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The building is shaped like an iceberg and is what Jackson describes as "Duck" architecture. December 1963 |
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Photograph of a new asphalt highway being constructed over a dirt road. The foreground of the image shows the new road and a black and white barricade sign that says, "ROAD CLOSED". Beyond that is the New Mexico desert and the dirt road veering off the edge of the image. In the background is a range of hills and the landscape is covered in golden desert brush. The sun is out and the sky is clear but light grey in the image. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Highway Construction N.M" and "8B". January 1971 |
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Photograph of a dirt parking lot with several parked cars in New Mexico on either side of a dirt road. The landscape shows rolling, brown hills dotted with desert shrub. A family is crossing the road towards the camera lens. Handwritten caption on slide jacket by Paul Groth reads: "HC" that refers to the "home collection" that was added from the slides Jackson removed and had at his house. July 1971 |
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"We learned to welcome almost every trace, every sign, no matter how incongruous or unsightly that reminded us of the human presence: the lonely two-pump gas station, the gate and cattle-guard entrance to some far-off invisible ranch, the tattered billboard out in the middle of nowhere." - J.B. Jackson on our relationship with the New Mexico landscape in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time Photograph of an old gas station ruin. The paint is peeling and appears to be a light pink and yellow in color. Trees and bushes with autumn leaves have overgrown the building. The windows are partially visible behind the bushes and are mostly boarded up. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson has an unreadable word and then reads: "filling station" and "Albuquerque". December 1963 |
Photograph made by Miguel Gandert in collaboration with J.B. Jackson of a person at a hose in a gravel driveway next to two vehicles in New Mexico. Clothes hang on a line behind the vehicles and the leafless trees stretch into a blue sky. Handwritten caption on slide jacket by Paul Groth reads: "HC" that refers to the "home collection" that was added from the slides Jackson removed and had at his house.
January 1986
A photograph of a horse and a colt standing behind an open, parked horse trailer in New Mexico.
August 1971
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A picturesque view of the Red River Valley Resort Area in Northern New Mexico. Buildings line a dirt road that runs parallel to a creek. The resort sits in a valley surrounded by mountains. undated |
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Photograph of a dilapidated building that used to be a house with metal sheets, boards or nothing in broken windows. Tiles fall off a tin roof and sage brush surrounds the wire and wood post fence. The sky behind is blue with some clouds. The sun creates shadows on the wall through the slats in the roof. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Poverty N.M" July 1971 |
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A photograph of the exterior of the historic Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. June 1971 |
A photograph of a motel in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Large trees line the front of the property.
April 1967
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"In the late afternoon immense black clouds boil up to the zenith, and then some small portion of the hot and thirsty landscape is suddenly blessed with a brief, violent downpour which makes every rock, every patch of Earth glisten" - J.B. Jackson on Summers in New Mexico in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time A fence runs along the horizon of a wide desert landscape in Taos, New Mexico. Clouds fill the sky and rain can be seen falling in the distance. September 1959 |
A photograph of 4 men roasting green chile on the roadside with a trailer hitch.
October 1985
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"Most dwellings in New Mexico are small and as works of art or architecture hardly worth close examination. Neverthless, they give our landscape its character...for they are likely to be homes of families with little money ––small-farmers, wage earners, day laborers, and men and women working in service jobs––people who often think of moving". - J.B. Jackson on the character of New Mexican homes in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time Photograph of a series of wooden, identical houses in a row for workers in Madrid, New Mexico. Each house has a porch and chimney. The desert landscape has golden grasses and hills are visible in the background. The sky is grey-blue with cloud cover. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Row Houses, NM" and "Workers Dwelling Company Towns" and "JBJ Madrid, NM". June 1964 |
A photograph of a trading post in Nageezi, New Mexico selling rugs, jewelry, wool, and livestock.
February 1972
A scenic photograph of a center framed dirt road leading off into distant mountains in the desert of New Mexico.
September 1976
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A photograph of Native American vendors selling jewelry and art outside of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Undated |
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A photograph of a couple sitting outside overseeing a collection of trinkets for sale in Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 1985 |
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A photograph of a colorful apartment building in Old Town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 1986 |
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Photograph of a the frontal view of the adobe St. Francisco de Assisi church in Taos, New Mexico. Three people are standing in front of the open door and a figure that may be the gardener stands wearing a straw hat on the side of the building looking at the camera. Some bushes are planted to line the path to the front door with a few small trees on the sides. Power lines, a small house and the tops of trees are in the background. The sun is out and the sky is a clear blue. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Churches" and "Taos" and "NM". July 1969 |
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A photograph of a rancher and his horse on a roadside in the desert. A motorcycle can be seen behind the pair. June 1973 |
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A photograph of a woman selling red chiles out of the back of her car in Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 1985 |
A photograph of a corner hotel and store in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The photograph was taken in a skid row in Albuquerque.
February 1972
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A photograph of people gathering outside a cafe in a skid row in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Two men with cowboy hats talk outside the cafe. January 1970 |
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Photograph of an adobe church with two bell towers. Tree boughs hang down at the top of the image. A hill rises behind the church. Two figures explore the court area in front of the wall. Handwritten caption by Paul Groth reads: "[Chimayo, NM]". July 1969 |
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Photograph of a small, square, one-story abandoned house in the rural desert of New Mexico. The windows are broken and boarded. Debris of wooden boards and shelves surround the exterior. A small smoke stack sits on the top center of the tin roof. The landscape around the house is dirt with rolling hills and brush behind taken on a sunny day with clear, blue sky. Slide is very dusty. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "New Mexico". June 1965 |
A photograph of the signage in front of Bajito Low Rider shop in the South Valley of Albuquerque.
January 1986
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A photograph of a man next to a car with a trunk full of mechanic tools. A big red box filled with tools reads "Juan's Auto Service". September 1985 |
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A photograph of the Iceburg Cafe in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The building is shaped like an iceberg and is what Jackson describes as "Duck" architecture. December 1963 |
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Photograph of a new asphalt highway being constructed over a dirt road. The foreground of the image shows the new road and a black and white barricade sign that says, "ROAD CLOSED". Beyond that is the New Mexico desert and the dirt road veering off the edge of the image. In the background is a range of hills and the landscape is covered in golden desert brush. The sun is out and the sky is clear but light grey in the image. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Highway Construction N.M" and "8B". January 1971 |
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Photograph of a dirt parking lot with several parked cars in New Mexico on either side of a dirt road. The landscape shows rolling, brown hills dotted with desert shrub. A family is crossing the road towards the camera lens. Handwritten caption on slide jacket by Paul Groth reads: "HC" that refers to the "home collection" that was added from the slides Jackson removed and had at his house. July 1971 |
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"We learned to welcome almost every trace, every sign, no matter how incongruous or unsightly that reminded us of the human presence: the lonely two-pump gas station, the gate and cattle-guard entrance to some far-off invisible ranch, the tattered billboard out in the middle of nowhere." - J.B. Jackson on our relationship with the New Mexico landscape in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time Photograph of an old gas station ruin. The paint is peeling and appears to be a light pink and yellow in color. Trees and bushes with autumn leaves have overgrown the building. The windows are partially visible behind the bushes and are mostly boarded up. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson has an unreadable word and then reads: "filling station" and "Albuquerque". December 1963 |
Photograph made by Miguel Gandert in collaboration with J.B. Jackson of a person at a hose in a gravel driveway next to two vehicles in New Mexico. Clothes hang on a line behind the vehicles and the leafless trees stretch into a blue sky. Handwritten caption on slide jacket by Paul Groth reads: "HC" that refers to the "home collection" that was added from the slides Jackson removed and had at his house.
January 1986
A photograph of a horse and a colt standing behind an open, parked horse trailer in New Mexico.
August 1971
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A picturesque view of the Red River Valley Resort Area in Northern New Mexico. Buildings line a dirt road that runs parallel to a creek. The resort sits in a valley surrounded by mountains. undated |
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Photograph of a dilapidated building that used to be a house with metal sheets, boards or nothing in broken windows. Tiles fall off a tin roof and sage brush surrounds the wire and wood post fence. The sky behind is blue with some clouds. The sun creates shadows on the wall through the slats in the roof. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Poverty N.M" July 1971 |
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A photograph of the exterior of the historic Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, New Mexico. June 1971 |
A photograph of a motel in Bernalillo, New Mexico. Large trees line the front of the property.
April 1967
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"In the late afternoon immense black clouds boil up to the zenith, and then some small portion of the hot and thirsty landscape is suddenly blessed with a brief, violent downpour which makes every rock, every patch of Earth glisten" - J.B. Jackson on Summers in New Mexico in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time A fence runs along the horizon of a wide desert landscape in Taos, New Mexico. Clouds fill the sky and rain can be seen falling in the distance. September 1959 |
A photograph of 4 men roasting green chile on the roadside with a trailer hitch.
October 1985
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"Most dwellings in New Mexico are small and as works of art or architecture hardly worth close examination. Neverthless, they give our landscape its character...for they are likely to be homes of families with little money ––small-farmers, wage earners, day laborers, and men and women working in service jobs––people who often think of moving". - J.B. Jackson on the character of New Mexican homes in A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time Photograph of a series of wooden, identical houses in a row for workers in Madrid, New Mexico. Each house has a porch and chimney. The desert landscape has golden grasses and hills are visible in the background. The sky is grey-blue with cloud cover. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Row Houses, NM" and "Workers Dwelling Company Towns" and "JBJ Madrid, NM". June 1964 |
A photograph of a trading post in Nageezi, New Mexico selling rugs, jewelry, wool, and livestock.
February 1972
A scenic photograph of a center framed dirt road leading off into distant mountains in the desert of New Mexico.
September 1976
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A photograph of Native American vendors selling jewelry and art outside of the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Undated |
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A photograph of a couple sitting outside overseeing a collection of trinkets for sale in Albuquerque, New Mexico. October 1985 |
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A photograph of a colorful apartment building in Old Town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. January 1986 |
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Photograph of a the frontal view of the adobe St. Francisco de Assisi church in Taos, New Mexico. Three people are standing in front of the open door and a figure that may be the gardener stands wearing a straw hat on the side of the building looking at the camera. Some bushes are planted to line the path to the front door with a few small trees on the sides. Power lines, a small house and the tops of trees are in the background. The sun is out and the sky is a clear blue. Handwritten caption by J.B. Jackson reads: "Churches" and "Taos" and "NM". July 1969 |
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A photograph of a rancher and his horse on a roadside in the desert. A motorcycle can be seen behind the pair. June 1973 |