Paul Sorenson wrote: >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. > That's the very first book I bought of his - wait, no - the first was 'In Wildness is the Preservation of the World" - paperback, of course, although I later bought the coffeetable one secondhand - but I'd say The Place No One Knew is pretty much my favorite... I wish I'd seen the canyon before it was flooded.
ann > >"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
