About Michael Cassity
Just as a Zen garden invites contemplation and inner reflection on how we live our lives and relate to the world around us, sometimes a two-dimensional image can call forth the same mindful impulses.
My mission in photography builds on my efforts in my career as a historian (for that, see my companion website at www.michaelcassity.org). While my books and articles as a historian of the American people have sought to bring into sharper focus the world we have lost, or, at any rate, a world that we have grown away from, so too does my photography seek to establish connections between the past and the present, and also between modern life and the natural world.
In both history and photography, my purpose is not guided by simple nostalgia or romantic reflection. It is, rather, an effort to touch a world of meaning and value and to kindle a closer relationship between people and between people and nature. If my photographs encourage the viewer to pause and ponder the natural world and / or the world of our past as sources of solace and inspiration and then to consider the purpose and direction of our own lives, I will have met a large part of my goal. For when we ponder the past and contemplate the natural world, we are also looking at the world we want to live in and the world we want to pass on to future generations.
I have worked in photography seriously since the publication of my first photographs in a national magazine in 1978. Since then I have published color and black and white photographs in Wyoming Wildlife, The American Rifleman, Colorado Heritage, Wyoming Heritage and Recreation, The Rangefinder: The Journal of Professional Photography, Great Plains Journal, Mistletoe Leaves, Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum Chronicle, Preservation Oklahoma News, and The Journal of American History, among others. I also was the recipient of the Wyoming Professional Photographers Association Roger Rockford Scholarship to Winona International School of Professional Photography (1986). In addition, I have produced archival-standard photography for the Historic American Engineering Record in the Library of Congress. In addition, I have used my photography extensively in my own books and other publications, such as in the books on Wyoming homesteading, ranching, and farming and on Depression-era federal projects in Wyoming and in the resource management and evaluation guides accompanying those books as well as in slide shows throughout Wyoming and beyond.
I hope you enjoy the images I have made. I would like to hear your comments. If you would like to purchase printed copies of the images, I hope they bring you continued opportunities for reflection and contemplation.
My mission in photography builds on my efforts in my career as a historian (for that, see my companion website at www.michaelcassity.org). While my books and articles as a historian of the American people have sought to bring into sharper focus the world we have lost, or, at any rate, a world that we have grown away from, so too does my photography seek to establish connections between the past and the present, and also between modern life and the natural world.
In both history and photography, my purpose is not guided by simple nostalgia or romantic reflection. It is, rather, an effort to touch a world of meaning and value and to kindle a closer relationship between people and between people and nature. If my photographs encourage the viewer to pause and ponder the natural world and / or the world of our past as sources of solace and inspiration and then to consider the purpose and direction of our own lives, I will have met a large part of my goal. For when we ponder the past and contemplate the natural world, we are also looking at the world we want to live in and the world we want to pass on to future generations.
I have worked in photography seriously since the publication of my first photographs in a national magazine in 1978. Since then I have published color and black and white photographs in Wyoming Wildlife, The American Rifleman, Colorado Heritage, Wyoming Heritage and Recreation, The Rangefinder: The Journal of Professional Photography, Great Plains Journal, Mistletoe Leaves, Jackson Hole Historical Society and Museum Chronicle, Preservation Oklahoma News, and The Journal of American History, among others. I also was the recipient of the Wyoming Professional Photographers Association Roger Rockford Scholarship to Winona International School of Professional Photography (1986). In addition, I have produced archival-standard photography for the Historic American Engineering Record in the Library of Congress. In addition, I have used my photography extensively in my own books and other publications, such as in the books on Wyoming homesteading, ranching, and farming and on Depression-era federal projects in Wyoming and in the resource management and evaluation guides accompanying those books as well as in slide shows throughout Wyoming and beyond.
I hope you enjoy the images I have made. I would like to hear your comments. If you would like to purchase printed copies of the images, I hope they bring you continued opportunities for reflection and contemplation.
About the Photographs
In order to capture the mood, the spirit, and the sense of a particular place or situation, I often create a panoramic image, so you will quickly notice that a good number of the pictures here are a little wider (some a lot wider) than you may be accustomed to. Maybe you will find the panoramic landscape view as powerful as I do and as congenial to your own perspective on the world. Since I generally make these pictures by stitching together multiple digital files to make a wide image, many of them have the potential to be printed in exceptionally large sizes without loss of detail. If you would like a larger size than I have listed, please contact me so that we can discuss your needs.
With each image you will have an opportunity to make a purchase if you are so inclined. The prints can be purchased as either (1) a high gloss Fuji Pearl paper print (unmounted and unmatted), (2) a high gloss Fuji Pearl paper print mounted on 2mm black styrene, ready for you to frame or display unframed, or (3) a glossy (a little softer than the brilliant Fuji Pearl images) print mounted on a canvas board; with this option the texture of canvas adds to the elegance of the image. Fuji Pearl paper is a beautiful, luminous paper that not only produces excellent color, contrast, and tone, but is also durable, lasting one hundred to two hundred years with minimal fading when properly displayed. Add $7.00 to the prices indicated for shipping to your physical address (not P.O. box). Prints delivered to an Oklahoma address will need to include a sales tax.
With each image you will have an opportunity to make a purchase if you are so inclined. The prints can be purchased as either (1) a high gloss Fuji Pearl paper print (unmounted and unmatted), (2) a high gloss Fuji Pearl paper print mounted on 2mm black styrene, ready for you to frame or display unframed, or (3) a glossy (a little softer than the brilliant Fuji Pearl images) print mounted on a canvas board; with this option the texture of canvas adds to the elegance of the image. Fuji Pearl paper is a beautiful, luminous paper that not only produces excellent color, contrast, and tone, but is also durable, lasting one hundred to two hundred years with minimal fading when properly displayed. Add $7.00 to the prices indicated for shipping to your physical address (not P.O. box). Prints delivered to an Oklahoma address will need to include a sales tax.
Legal Note
All images on this site are the property of Michael Cassity. These photographs are protected by copyright laws and are not to be downloaded, printed, or reproduced without the express, written permission of Michael Cassity.
