Lake Powell • At the end of a scorching afternoon in early June, just as the sun dipped below the rolling Navajo sandstone cliffs that surround Lake Powell, photographer Dawn Kish set up a tripod.
She mounted a 4x5 large-format Crown Graphic camera, sighted the upside-down landscape displayed in the viewfinder, and clicked the shutter.
Delicately removing the single film negative from the camera, Kish returned the camera to a drybag labeled TAD.
The scene felt anachronistic, especially as electronic music blared from a party on the top deck of a nearby houseboat. Kish would have to wait until she returned to her home in Flagstaff, Ariz., before she could see how the image turned out, and with a cost of over $400 to make a print, she chose her shots with care...