X: On the Road & At the Crossroads
By Michael Hyatt
As described in my portfolio X The Band, I began photographing X in 1980 and went on three tours, including their very first, as photographer and part-time driver. I continued photographing X around Los Angeles over the years and during four shows in October 2024 in Texas during their ”The End is Near” tour. I then approached Perceval Press… »more
Fifth and Wall Street: Skid Row, Los Angeles in the 1970s
Photographs by Michael Hyatt and Charles Pavlich. Text by Gray George.
Photographers Hyatt and Pavlich met in Big Sur, California in 1968. Quickly discovering their mutual interest in photography, both gravitated to documentary projects on Skid Row related to alcoholism in their mutual family histories. Of that aspect, Gray George writes in the preface, “Both Pavlich and Hyatt were drawn to Skid Row for similar reasons. Pavlich lost his father to the Row, while Hyatt lost his grandfather…” »more
Along the Migrant Trail: a Borderland Portrait
Photographs by Michael Hyatt
Foreward by Rebecca A. Fowler, Ph.D.
OUT OF PRINT
Delivers a powerful view of one of today’s most controversial journeys, the migratory passage of thousands of men, women, and children, from Mexico, Central America and other nations around the world, across the Arizona-Sonora border. Michael Hyatt’s ground-level perspective frames the perilous trek from many vantage points, most uniquely through images of things left behind—artifacts of a journey that has become a pivotal issue in today’s national and international debate….»more
Migrant Artifacts: Magic and Loss in the Sonoran Desert
By Michael Hyatt
OUT OF PRINT
Delivers a powerful view of one of today’s most controversial journeys, the migratory passage of thousands of men, women, and children, from Mexico, Central America and other nations around the world, across the Arizona-Sonora border. Michael Hyatt’s ground-level perspective frames the perilous trek from many vantage points, most uniquely through images of things left behind—artifacts of a journey that has become a pivotal issue in today’s national and international debate….»more
Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge
By Carol Ann Bassett
Photographs by Michael Hyatt
OUT OF PRINT
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument lies in southwestern Arizona on the Mexican border. It is an isolated park that for Carol Ann Bassett has long been a place of solitude–a silent refuge where she often camped out alone to capture the natural rhythms of the desert. Photographer Michael Hyatt hiked through Organ Pipe to visually document its subtle beauty in the Ajo Mountains and the valley of the Ajo, and at Quitobaquito, a rare desert oasis. Few visitors may brave Organ Pipe during summer, when the temperature can reach 120 degrees….»more
Guatemala: The Face of Innocence & Genecide
By Michael Hyatt
Guatemala: The Face of Innocence & Genocide reflects on the 36-year Guatemalan civil war: its casualties, survivors and their offspring and repatriation of the remains of those massacred by the army and paramilitary forces. Guatemala in the 1940s was a leading agricultural center in Central America due in large part to the direct control of foreign interests such as the US-based United Fruit Company. Democratic elections held in 1945 led to ten years of social reforms. Under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (1951-1954) land and agrarian reform predominated. Arbenz advocated for land redistribution. ….»more
Beyond and Back: The Story of X
By f stop Fitzgerald and Chris Morris
OUT OF PRINT
X is a cross on its side, a type of chromosome, an axis in a three-dimensional system, an unknown quantity, an American rock ‘n’ roll band. X is to Los Angeles what The Ramones were to New York and The Sex Pistols and The Clash were to London. No wonder Spin Magazine named X the 4th greatest Punk Rock Band of All-Time. X the band is songwriter Exene Cervenka on vocals, songwriter John Doe on vocals and bass, Billy Zoom on guitar and D.J Bonebrake on drums. Contains 9 Michael Hyatt photos plus cover shot.