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ORION Magazine

Orion Magazine Nov/Dec 2009
FEATURE

“Contested Ground”
BY CHARLES BOWDEN
PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL P. BERMAN
-How history betrays reality, and power obscures everything under the sun.
Orion Magazine
“America’s finest environmental magazine” (Boston Globe) is an influential forum for re-imagining humanity’s relationship to nature, culture, and place, featuring America’s foremost writers and artists.

TRINITY Book Release

TRINITY Book Release

Nov 26 / 6-8:30p.m
Galleri Urbane 212 E. San Antonio St/Hwy, Marfa, TX 79843 432.729.4200

The Southwestern desert—that tumultuous “zone claimed by two nations, and controlled by no one”—is Charles Bowden’s home and enduring passion. In acclaimed books ranging from A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior and Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, [...]

Grasslands Exhibition

Grasslands Exhibition

October 12 - December 3 2009
516 ARTS - 516 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM 87102  505.242.1445
Grasslands is a photographic series by Michael P. Berman about the Chihuahuan Desert grasslands in New Mexico, Texas and the northern border of Mexico, where he has wandered into the desert without a compass to, in his words, “live [...]

trinity

“Trinity” will be released by University of Texas Press October 2009
The Southwestern desert—that tumultuous “zone claimed by two nations, and controlled by no one”—is Charles Bowden’s home and enduring passion. In acclaimed books ranging from A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior and Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family to Inferno [...]