# # # # # I would like to say that my whole photography career began with shooting motel signs, but that would be a lie on a few counts. First, it’s not really a career. Not a paying one,…
THE OPEN ROAD: Motel Signs …Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
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ZEPHYR AMERICA: Canyonlands National Park with Edna Fridley
Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr in the past year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To…
THE OPEN ROAD: The Travel Journals #1 …Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
I don’t feel like coming up with a narrative or story arc here. I’m a bit discombobulated. I just want to throw some stuff up against the wall, some words and some photos, and let it stick or watch it…
On Herb Ringer’s Trail in DEATH VALLEY …by Tonya Audyn Stiles
Longtime Zephyr readers won’t need any introduction to Herb Ringer. His photography has appeared in this publication for nearly our entire existence. As a photographer, and a chronicler of the 20th century, he has always been right at the heart of…
Grippo: Blackout on the Open Road …by Paul Vlachos
What do you do when reality is too much to handle? Geddes woke up in a strange room. It was clearly a motel room. There were two beds, a TV, a bathroom done up in tile and fixtures from the…
ZEPHYR AMERICA: Durango to Silverton by Train with Herb Ringer
Our regular readers know that we began a new project at the Zephyr in the past year–called “Zephyr America.” We’ve been slowly wading through the massive Zephyr archives of historic photos and digitizing them to share with our readers. To…
THE OPEN ROAD: Coffee…Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
I’m writing this while drinking coffee. It’s in a big, old fashioned mug – brown glazed with a tiny chip on the handle – from the Hull Company. I found it second-hand in old Greenwich Village at a place that…
ON HERB RINGER’S TRAIL: RETURN TO RHYOLITE & BEATTY, NV …by Jim Stiles
In the months after Herb Ringer’s 1941 move to Reno from New Jersey, he set out to explore the barren deserts nearby. Even before the war, much of the American West was relatively empty, and towns in the Great Basin…
Down Glen Canyon with Georgia O’Keeffe & Eliot Porter …by Gene M Stevenson
The following excerpt is from the book: CANYON COUNTRY EXPLORATIONS & RIVER LORE: The Remarkable Resilient Life of Kenny Ross, by Gene M. Stevenson. The book was written about Kenny Ross, one of the forgotten personalities on the Colorado Plateau…
THE OPEN ROAD: Shots From the Lost World… Words and Photos by Paul Vlachos
“The world has gone mad today And good’s bad today, And black’s white today, And day’s night today, And that gent today You gave a cent today Once had several chateaux.” I sometimes think of happier times. What is “happy,”…