Erv Schroeder: Stone Time Keepers
IAE2508
Summary Note
Beginning in the late 20th century, photographer Erv Schroeder made numerous trips throughout the American Southwest, resulting in two bodies of infrared photographic work: a book titled The Memory of Stone (film images, 1995 – 2013) and Time Keepers (digital images, 2014 – present).Biographical Note
Erv Schroeder is a photographer who also works as a user interface analyst, graphic designer, and web designer. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and has an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and featured in the online magazine F-Stop and in Black & White magazine. He was an artist-in-residence at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. He used infrared film for decades until it was discontinued. To continue his exploration of the Southwestern landscape, he began using a digital camera converted to infrared in 2014 (Time Keepers series).
Scope and Content
This archive presents materials from the two bodies of work, The Memory of Stone (film images) and Time Keepers (digital images), including printed ephemera, proofs and work prints, a manuscript, and publishing information. The Memory of Stone book features poems by five Indigenous writers, created to accompany selected photographs. Also included are contributions by environmentalist Bill McKibben, geologist Marcia Bjornerud, and Acoma Pueblo storyteller Simon J. Ortiz. The Time Keepers archive contains inkjet prints of photographs from National Monuments and National Parks in New Mexico, Utah, and Arizona.
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Related Publications
Adams, Ansel. My Camera in the National Parks: 30 Photographs with Interpretative Text and Informative Material on the Parks and Monuments, and Photographic Data. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.
Chesher, Greer K. Heart of the Desert Wild: Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Bryce Canyon, Utah: Bryce Canyon Natural History Association, 2000.
Des Moines Art Center. Monument Valley. Des Moines, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2019.
McCreery, Patricia. Tapamveni: The Rock Art Galleries of Petrified Forest and Beyond. Petrified Forest, Arizona: Petrified Forest Museum Association, 1994.
Schroeder, Erv. The Memory of Stone: Meditations on the Canyons of the West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Tuft, Diane. Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land. New York, N.Y.: Assouline, 2014.
Tuft, Diane. THE ARCTIC MELT: Images of a Disappearing Landscape. New York, N.Y.: Assouline Publishing, 2017.
Tuft, Diane. Unseen. New York, N.Y.: Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, 2009.
Turner, Jim (James Edward). Arizona: A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State. Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2011.
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- Folder 1 Artist and Project Information, 2011–2025
- Folder 2 The Memory of Stone Project Statement, Preliminary Draft, & Promotional Ephemera, 2012–2025
- Folder 3 The Memory of Stone Project Photographic Prints, 1995 – 2011
- Folder 4 The Memory of Stone Book Contract, July 14, 2013, 2011 – 2013
- Folder 5 The Memory of Stone Manuscript, July 17, 2013
- Folder 6 The Memory of Stone Captions, August 17, 2013
- Folder 7 The Memory of Stone Press Proof, June 19, 2014
- Folder 8 Time Keepers Project Statement and Promotional Ephemera, 2015–2025
- Folder 9 Time Keepers Project Photographic Prints, 2014–2024
Additional Materials
- 7#1b Memory of Stone, 98-Page Book Proof Print, June 19, 2014
- 7#1a Memory of Stone Book Cover, Proof Print, June 19, 2014