John Ford Point Sunset
by Paul LeSage
Title
John Ford Point Sunset
Artist
Paul LeSage
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Director John Ford’s 1939 film, Stagecoach, starring John Wayne, has had an enduring influence in making Monument Valley famous.
After that first experience, Ford returned nine times to shoot Westerns — even when the films were not set in Arizona or Utah. A popular lookout point in the park is named in his honor as “John Ford Point.”
Monument Valley provides perhaps the most enduring and definitive images of the American West.
The isolated red mesas and buttes surrounded by empty, sandy desert have been filmed and photographed countless times over the years for movies, advertising and holiday brochures. Because of this, the area may seem quite familiar, even on a first visit, but it is soon evident that the natural colors really are as bright and deep as those in all the pictures.
The valley is not a valley in the conventional sense, but rather a wide flat, sometimes desolate landscape, interrupted by the crumbling formations rising hundreds of feet into the air, the last remnants of the sandstone layers that once covered the entire region.
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June 14th, 2018
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