Images: Jack Dykinga's Grand Canyon - Tapa dura

The stunning vistas of the Grand Canyon come alive through the photography of Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Dykinga. Complementing the photography, award-winning writers Charles Bowden and Wayne Ranney offer unique perspectives on the Canyon’s magnificent beauty and the theories surrounding its fascinating formation.

JACK DYKINGA: He began his photojournalism career with the Chicago Tribune. In 1971, as a member of the Chicago Sun Times staff, he won journalism’s highest award, the Pulitzer Prize, for feature photography. He came to Arizona in 1976 and five years later began his freelance career making landscape photographs. Dykinga’s work reflects the merging of a photojournalistic, documentary approach with large-format landscape photography, focusing on environmental issues in the United States and Mexico. The 36×40 Fuji Crystal Archive prints of his work are breathtaking and highly valued by collectors. Dykinga lives in Tucson.CHARLES BOWDEN: The author of more than 20 non-fiction books, he is a winner of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. Of one of Bowden’s books, Frog Mountain Blues, New York Times book reviewer Emerson Trout wrote: "His prose trembles with a raw and vital energy that I find missing from much of the current writing about the vital questions of wildness and wilderness." Bowden lives in Tucson.WAYNE RANNEY: A geologist, author and guide, he strives to share his appreciation of the earth and its geologic history with anyone who is curious about landscapes and how they might have formed. In 2000, he participated in the Symposium on the Origin of the Colorado River that included more than 70 geologists. His book, Carving Grand Canyon, won the Glyph Award in the Best Science category from the Arizona Book Publishing Association and honorable mention from the National Outdoor Book Awards. Ranney lives in Flagstaff.