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Erv Schroeder: Stone Time Keepers

IAE2508

Summary Note

Utilizing infrared film, photographer Erv Schroeder made numerous trips, beginning in the late 20th century, throughout the American Southwest resulting in two bodies of work: The Memory of Stone and Time Keepers.

Biographical Note

Erv Schroeder is a photographer who also works as a user-interface analyst and graphic and web designer. He lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries all over the United States. He has been an artist in residence at the Petrified Forest National Park and a featured artist in F-Stop magazine. He made his earlier black-and-white images with 35mm Nikon film cameras and Kodak High-Speed Infrared film. When Kodak stopped producing infrared film in 2007, he began to use Efke IR 820 Aura Infrared Film. Schroeder makes high-resolution scans of the negatives, then retouches and adjusts them as you would in a traditional darkroom, only using Photoshop.

Scope and Content

Utilizing infrared film, photographer Erv Schroeder made numerous trips throughout the American Southwest beginning in the late 20th century. The archive presents materials from The Memory of Stone and Time Keepers bodies of work including printed ephemera, proofs and work prints, a manuscript and publishing information.

Arrangement

The folders in the archive Erv Schroeder: Stone Time Keepers, are organized by subject, and follow a rough chronology for each project: The Memory of Stone and Time Keepers.

Inclusive Dates

1995-2025

Bulk Dates

2006-2024

Quantity / Extent

.25 cubic feet

Language

English

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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.

Container Listing:

  • ARCH-FILE 138

    • 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

    Archive F30 Oversized Items

    • 7#1a Memory of Stone Book Cover, Proof Print, June 19, 2014