ARIZONA THE BEAUTIFUL

Arizona the Beautiful A Study in Pictorial Photography

Arizona the Beautiful . . . land of strange and wondrous splen-ndor, exquisite and grotesque, resplen-dently attractive and of brilliant charm, a contrast in the vivacious and fascinat-ing moods and whims of sky and earth and weather, of rhythmic overtones of light and color, of enharmonic patterns of sunshine and shadow, a symphonious and mellifluous concert played on mut-able Nature's mighty organs of temper and tranquility, the soft sublimity of eternal agelessness, yet forever real and new and startling . . . offers enchanting possibilities to the pictorial photographer.

Arizona proudly points to many of her citizens whose pictorials in creative pho-tography have found their way to world salons and exhibitions. These pictorial-ists, by means of the camera, have caught glimpses of Arizona's bizarre beauty and through their wares have shown these glimpses of beauty to far-off peoples in other states and other lands.

We will endeavor to reproduce in these pages, from time to time, some of the pictorials of our own citizens, whose passion is Arizona and photography.

This month Arizona Highways proudly presents a representative selection from the collection of pictorials of W. N. Til-lery.

A product of the Middlewest, Bill Til-lery first came to Arizona, as have so many other Middlewesterners, for a short visit-and that visit has extended to ten years. He has pursued the hobby of pho-tography for 25 years, and that he is distinguished in the realm of pictorial photography is shown by the fact that his works have hung in leading exhibi-tions in this country and abroad.

The pictorials of Bill Tillery grasp the vista, the expansiveness, the depths of Arizona. In his studies of cacti he seems to have penetrated the very soul of the strange and lonely Arizona desert.

The pictorials that follow in these pages have won favorable comment by critics. His study, cacti, was reproduced in the latest issue of the American Annual of Photography.

Bill Tillery, a member of Arizona Pictorialists, pursues the profession of watchmaking for his living, but when time is available he goes into the desert and mountains of Arizona, and with his camera as a weapon jousts, as it were, with the gods. R. C.