Arizona Highways Partners with the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation on Special Collectors Issue to Help Preserve Senator Barry Goldwater's Collection of Rare Photographs

PHOENIX, Oct. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- While U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater was widely known as a longtime politician and one-time presidential candidate, he was also an avid photographer. Three years older than Arizona itself, he documented his home state through stunning images and motion picture film — beginning from early statehood to the end of the 20^th century.

Arizona Highways, the first nationally circulated consumer magazine to be published in all color from cover to cover, is releasing an exclusive 100-page collector's issue featuring never-before-seen images from the private Goldwater archives. Goldwater's photographs detail his artist's eye and ardent passion to record Arizona's ancient cultures and timeless, fragile landscapes. This special edition December issue will be available Nov. 15 and includes commentary from celebrated photographer Ansel Adams and the Goldwater family. 

"Barry's photographs are among the most beautiful we've ever published, and also the most important," says Robert Stieve, Arizona Highways' editor in chief. "He had access to places that were typically off-limits to most photographers, including Arizona's Native lands. Whether or not he knew it at the time, he was documenting history for future generations."

Arizona Highways is also partnering with the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation on a forthcoming exhibition, coffee table book and future products. With support from a grant as presented by SRP, the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation's mission is to preserve this important slice of American history. By digitizing and restoring more than 15,000 negatives, slides, private journals and over 25 miles of motion picture film shot by Goldwater, the Foundation serves to rescue them from irreversible deterioration.

"My grandfather had a long history with Arizona Highways, so the relationship between the two organizations is a natural fit," said Ali Goldwater Ross, executive director of the Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation.  "My grandfather's wishes were to share his photographs with the world and the Foundation's mission is to preserve and protect them for generations to come."

The Foundation will showcase the images in an exhibition, "Photographs by Barry M. Goldwater: The Arizona Highways Collection," debuting Jan. 6, 2019 at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West.

Arizona Highways
Arizona Highways has been showcasing the people, places and things that make Arizona unique since 1925. The magazine has subscribers in all 50 states and more than 100 countries globally. Since 1938 it has published hundreds of Barry Goldwater's photographs, in both color and black-and-white.

The Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation
The Barry & Peggy Goldwater Foundation mission is to curate, digitize, restore and preserve historic and educational collections of photographs, motion film, and documentation to be made available for exhibitions, educational institutions and through the online Goldwater Virtual Library. For further information visit www.goldwaterfoundation.org.

Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West:
Scottsdale's Museum of the West is a three-year-old museum and Smithsonian affiliate organization featuring regularly changing and permanent exhibits of Western and Native American art, artifacts and programs that bring the West's heritage, culture and community to life. 

SOURCE Arizona Highways