

Delicate Arch With La Sal Mountains In The Distance, Arches National Park, Utah, 1980. Philip Hyde made a more documentary landscape photograph emphasizing the rock formation and showing nature as is rather than trying to contrive a "pretty picture" out of Delicate Arch. He photographed Delicate Arch when Arches was still a national monument. Besides photographers of the 1800s, Philip Hyde was one of the first to ever photograph Arches, probably the very first in color. Delicate Arch has been photographed repeatedly by landscape photographers ever since. Philip Hyde also worked with Bates Wilson, Arches Superintendent, who was the lead advocate for the creation and later expansion of Canyonlands National Park. The book "Slickrock: Canyon Country of Southeast Utah" by Edward Abbey and Philip Hyde also helped to galvanize support for the protection of Canyonlands and other Utah wilderness.