Saturday, March 28, 2009

Museum acquires photo collection

Santa Fe New Mexican

"A limited-edition portfolio of photographs of the Galisteo Basin was donated to the Palace of the Governors Archives by the McCune Charitable Foundation and Verve Gallery.

The portfolios, priced at $6,000, include 27 photographs, sized 11 inches by 17 inches, of the basin defined by the 55-mile-long Galisteo River.

The project, created by Mary Anne Redding, curator of photography at the Palace of the Governors, and Rixon Reed, director of the Photo-eye Gallery, is an expression of opposition to plans by a Texas-based energy company to drill for oil and gas in the Galisteo Basin. Fifty percent of the money raised from the sale of the boxed-set edition is being donated to Drilling Santa Fe, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center and the Oil & Gas Accountability Project.

Photographs from the project are available in an online gallery at www.GalisteoBasinPhotoProject.com. "

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