American West

Explaining and Exploring "The Searchers: The Making of an American Legend"

Rich Fisher — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:16:00 +0000

One of the more famous lines attributed to John Ford (1894-1973), the iconic film director who made many of the finest Westerns ever to come out of Hollywood, goes like this: "When the truth becomes legend, print the legend." That line is from "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," a movie from the early 1960s, but it just as clearly applies to "The Searchers," the classic Western from 1956, with John Wayne and Natalie Wood, which is commonly seen as a Ford masterpiece.

Finding Stories, Capturing Moments, Making Pictures: A Chat with Veteran Photographer Jim Richardson

Rich Fisher — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:30:17 +0000

On this edition of ST, we speak with Jim Richardson, a longtime contributing photographer for National Geographic magazine (and contributing editor to NatGeo's Traveler magazine) who is known for his globe-trotting photo-journalism as well as his carefully observed images of rural American life. As a social documentary photographer who's been in the business for 30+ years, Richardson has enjoyed an influential and far-flung career.

Detailed Notes on Prairie Dogs: A Chat with Prof. John Hoogland of the University of Maryland

Rich Fisher — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 23:36:57 +0000

On this edition of StudioTulsa, we are discussing the interesting characteristics, colonies, mating practices, defense maneuvers, and kinship structures of prairie dogs --- yes, prairie dogs: those once-plentiful-but-now-dwindling rodents that exist in five different species throughout the grasslands of North America. Highly communicative and actually able to "speak" via several distinct and sophisticated (and quite discernable) calls, these burrowing mammals have long been studied --- much like, say, apes or whales --- for social/behavioral reasons.

"Gus Foster's Views of this Broad Land" at the Gilcrease Museum

Rich Fisher — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:51:34 +0000

Our guest on this edition of StudioTulsa is the New Mexico-based photographer Gus Foster, who's been capturing images with various panoramic cameras since the early 1970s.