A GOLDWATER FAMILY ALBUM

AROUND THE COUNTRY, BARRY GOLDWATER IS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS DISTINGUISHED CAREER IN THE U.S. SENATE. HERE AT HOME, HOWEVER, HE'S ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS PHOTOGRAPHY, WHICH GRACED THE PAGES OF THIS MAGAZINE ON MANY OCCASIONS. RECENTLY, MR. GOLDWATER'S SON MICHAEL ASKED IF WE'D LIKE ACCESS TO THE FAMILY ARCHIVE, INCLUDING THE IMAGES IN MICHAEL'S BOOK, THE EYES OF HIS SOUL: THE VISUAL LEGACY OF BARRY M. GOLDWATER, MASTER PHOTOGRAPHER. “HELL YES,” WE REPLIED, AND JUST LIKE THAT, BARRY GOLDWATER IS BACK IN ARIZONA HIGHWAYS.

PRECEDING PANEL: BARRY AND BOYS

Barry Goldwater made a habit of traveling throughout Arizona with his children. Here, Michael (left) and Barry Jr. (right) pose for a photograph with their dad during a camping trip in Northern Arizona. Michael says, “What I enjoyed was being yanked out of school to go along with Dad.”

ABOVE: NAVAJO PONY, CIRCA 1938

“The tried and tested mount featured in this image was a favorite of Dad’s for a wide variety of reasons.” Let him speak for the circumstances surrounding their introduction: ‘This Navajo pony was groundtied by the hitching post at Tonalea [now called Red Lake] when I saw him in the 1930s.’” — Michael Goldwater Sr.

RIGHT: BIG COUNTRY, 1953

“A good friend of mine described Arizona as the ‘Big Country.’ This piece of the ‘Big Country’ is between the lumber town of McNary and the sportsman’s center, Springerville.... The hill in the distance is an extinct volcanic cone, one of many that dot this White Mountains area, reminding us that out of the violence of evolution has come the quiet beauty which is ours.” — Barry Goldwater

PRECEDING PANEL: THE DESERT CORSAGE, 1936

"The desert corsage, a picture of two blossoming flowers of the giant saguaro taken about 1936. These flowers bloom at night and start dying as soon as the sun rises." - Barry Goldwater

LEFT: THE VALLEY, 1967

"Over the years, Dad shot a vast series of frames of the mesas, spires and buttes that rise as much as a mile high out of the majestic valley [Monument Valley]. This image conveys both his love of the place and his technical precision at maximizing depth of field." - Michael Goldwater Sr.

ABOVE: HOPI CHILD, 1959 "This little bucket of fire was the daughter of Mr. Potter, a Hopi who lived in the Grand Canyon at the Indian shop. When she would see me coming, she would run up to me and want me to take her picture." - Barry Goldwater

LEFT: FAMILY OUTING, 1950 "Dad's belief in the value of direct experience was such that he oftentimes pulled us out of school for these trips, under the guise that we were off to study Arizona. And study Arizona we did to the extent that all four of us came to share his passion for off-the-beaten-path Arizona." - Michael Goldwater Sr.

ABOVE: BARRY AND BROTHER BOB