The magazine of the photo-essay
Vanishing Points
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Michael Sherwin
Vanishing Points is a long-term photography project that focuses on
significant sites of Indigenous American presence, including sacred
landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested
battlegrounds. The book combines beautiful large format landscape
images with smaller still lifes of objects and debris collected at the sites,
along with a detailed index including titles and captions.
The combination of photographs presented in this book operate as
literal and metaphorical vanishing points.They reflect on the monuments
modern culturewill leave behind and what the archeological evidence of
our civilization will reveal about our time on earth.
Eagle Feather, Medicine Wheel National Historic
Landmark, Bighorn National Forest. © Michael Sherwin
John Wayne Point, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park,
© Michael Sherwin
Prairie Juniper, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, ND
© Michael Sherwin
Shrum Mound, Columbus, OH
© Michael Sherwin
Big Bottom Massacre State Memorial, Morgan County,
© Michael Sherwin
Antelope House Ruins, Canyon de Chelly National
Monument, © Michael Sherwin
Stockade Wall, Fort Phil Kearney State Historic Site,
Banner,WY © Michael Sherwin
Mural, Point Pleasant Riverfront Park, Point Pleasant, WV
© Michael Sherwin
George Washington, Black Hills National Forest,
Keystone, SD © Michael Sherwin
Laundry, Indian Mound Campground, New Marshfield,
© Michael Sherwin
Suncrest Towne Centre, Morgantown, WV
© Michael Sherwin
Wild Horses and Road, Crow Indian Reservation, MT
© Michael Sherwin