Welcome to Taos
FOR THE BODY & SOUL
Adventures Unlimited & Inspirations Unparalleled
“Lookie!...this is a great place. Such MOUNTAINS!!!! Peaks are 13000 feet high - MIT SNOW!!!! Pines Aspins Snow Clouds Burros Swell People...No photographers but me. You gotta see this place before you die.”
— Ansel Adams letter to Cedric Wright, Los Gallow, Taos, NM, April 1929
“Today there is thick black sky and snow is falling in the hills. Tomorrow it may be a crystal clear day; the changes of the weather are always startling…Mary Austin gets back in a day or so. We are enjoying every minute of the time, and the people are all so good to us that we feel quite at home. There is an unfolding a perspective of work that seems much, much more than I had ever hoped for…I am certain that New Mexico will keep me half a year at least [in the future] and I shall meet with a great success. The wealth of material is beyond belief.”
— Ansel Adams letter to Charles Adams, New Mexico, April 4, 1929
A seminal work in Adam's career, and a landmark photography book, “Taos Pueblo” is considered by many to be the greatest pictorial representation of the American West. With the publication of “Taos Pueblo,” Adams launched his career as arguably the greatest landscape photographer of our time.
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way… things I had no words for.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe regarding Taos
“I felt as if something was ending and another was beginning,”
– Georgia O’Keeffe reflecting on Taos
“Half my work was already done for me in New Mexico.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe reflecting on Taos
"I think New Mexico was the greatest experience I ever had from the outside world. It certainly changed me forever."
— D.H. Lawrence
Lawrence bought a ranch in Taos that can be visited - and which was a focal point for literati in the 20's. Even Georgia O'Keeffe visited and lived there for a time. Lawrence in fact wrote and was inspired to write several of his novels in Taos. He wrote and published eight novels while living in Taos, one book of poems, one book of short novels and the collections of essays.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
— Aldous Huxley
Huxley first came to Taos in 1922, staying at his friend D.H. Lawrence's ranch (see photo right). He returned to Taos in 1935 with his family and lived there until his death in 1963. Although some biographers state that he lived in Hollywood, his home was Taos. He did spend time in Hollywood employed as a screenwriter, etc. While living in Taos starting in 1935 (Brave New World was published in 1932), Huxley wrote and published 7 novels, 5 collections of short stories and novellas, 2 uncollected short stories, 3 plays, 5 screen plays (including; Pride and Prejudice, Madame Curie, Jane Eyre, A Woman's Vengeance, and the original screenplay for Disney's Alice in Wonderland), 48 published articles, 17 pubished essay collections, 3 uncollected published essays, 5 pamphlets, and 27 adaptations for film and television.
Aldous Huxley and D.H. Lawrence in Taos, 1922
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