To see more of Eliot Porter's work, see if you can find a book originally published in 1963 by the Sierra Club called "The Place No One Knew". It's Porter's photos of Glen Canyon in northern AZ before the dam was built and the canyon was flooded.
"From Publishers Weekly This is ... master nature photographer Porter's 1963 paean to a unique natural wonder of compressed geology and atmospheric caprice now long since extinguished by a power-project dam. The work still excites as both camera art and a spur to wilderness preservation. Light, shadow and tinted hue play changes on the canyon's walls, rifts and waters in Porter's color plates, here accompanied by quotations from Thoreau, Loren Eiseley, Owen Wister, Wallace Stegner and others. The assemblage of "carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments" that Porter calls "the Colorado's masterwork" was discovered by John Wesley Powell in 1869. Porter mourns a vanished river passage that "mirrors pink rocks and cerulean sky" and in whose narrow chasms "streams of melted gems flow over purple sands." Though imperceptible in its original state, Glen Canyon on these picture-pages persists and is fittingly commemorated." Another of book of Porter's worth perusing has photos from the coast of Maine, titled "Summer Island". -P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 2/13/2007 6:51:50 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Marnie - > I like this more the more I look it - though it isn't quite up to your > Joshua trees for me (very subjectively) > > You are becoming the Eliot Porter of the list > > ann > ============ > Thanks, Ann. I think you caught what I liked, the play of light on the rock. > And I know no reason one can't take a slightly more intimate portrait of a > big rock. :-) > > Had to look up Eliot Porter, wow, big compliment. Maybe a little tooooooo > big. But big thanks. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > ============= > >> In a message dated 2/12/2007 2:49:44 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I really like the lighting in this shot. >> >> >> Dan M >> ============ >> Thanks. :-) >> >> So did I. >> >> Marnie aka Doe >> ============= >> >> > >>> But enough caveats -- I rather like some of the straight on El Capitan >>> photos I got. Needless to say I shot it a lot, and this is only one... >>> >>> http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/elcapitan1.htm >>> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
