EDITORIAL: Photographer’s exhibit is vintage Nevada
It's appropriate that Jeff Scheid's first solo photography exhibit is being staged at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City. Over the course of his 34-year career at the Review-Journal, Mr. Scheid has documented as much Nevada history as anyone, capturing iconic images from boxing rings and desert landscapes, courtrooms and showrooms, crime scenes and casinos.
His black-and-white exhibit, which opened a yearlong run Thursday, is vintage Nevada: "Ranching in the High Desert: Five Generations, One Family," highlights life at Twin Springs Ranch in Nye County, where the Fallini family for five generations has run 1,800 to 2,500 head of cattle across more than a thousand square miles.
The photographs show a way of life that increasingly is overlooked: dependence on an unforgiving terrain.
"Going through Nevada from point A to point B at 75 miles an hour, you wonder who lives there," Mr. Scheid says.
"There are only two photos that have anything that says 'modern.' You could almost think they were taken 150 years ago."
Like so much of Mr. Scheid's work, the exhibit is timeless. Congratulations, Mr. Scheid, on well-deserved recognition of your unmatched photographic storytelling skills. We urge all Nevadans to see it for themselves.
