Photograph by David Muench
The David Muench Collection
Legendary photographer David Muench’s more than seven decades of groundbreaking photography is getting a permanent home. The longtime Arizona Highways contributor — and influence for countless other…
Photograph by John Burcham
Olivia Benally
Wednesday is deadline day at the Navajo Times, and at the weekly newspaper’s headquarters in the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock, Olivia Benally is taking a break from answering emails and…
Photograph by Brad Armstrong
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater looks positively blissful. It’s the summer of 1940, and 31-year-old Barry is deep into a journey along the Colorado River that will make him just the 73rd person to travel through the…
Photograph by Joseph Muench
Valley of the Monuments
It was dawn in Monument Valley. From out of utter darkness, as still as it was complete, was born a sight never to be erased from the colored slides that our memory holds sacred. As a pale light…
Photograph by Kerrick James
The Changeable Earth
I was alone the first time I went to Monument Valley. Nearly two years ago. Late April. The day was warm, but the night cooled the way night does when the desert remembers winter.  I’d been teaching…
Photograph by Adam Schallau
The Next Best
Editor’s Note: The images in this portfolio are presented chronologically, based on their publication date. We love all 25 images equally. Enio Lanaro April 2014,…
Photograph by Guy Schmickle
It All Started With the Snow
Randy Prentice A juniper wears a wintry coat amid a stand of mature ponderosa pines near the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The Canyon’s South Rim sees about…
Front Cover of Arizona Highways 1966 Calendar
Editor's Letter
Tennis Imes sent us a letter in 1966. It came from Santa Monica, one of many letters we’d gotten in response to our thriving newborn. “Calls are coming in,” he wrote, “from friends and family…