I thought Galen to be a Nikon bigot and employed a swaggering literary style. I wrote and told him that some years prior to his death. I've been to his Bishop "Mountain Light" gallery and did enjoy some images. I'm familiar with Rowel's work you mentioned, however, I did find his work generally over saturated. Luckily, when I visited the gallery, some work of David Munch was hanging in the guest section of the gallery. It was a particular thrill for me to view a number of glorious large format prints done by a photographer who's work I'd admired for some time. I happened to be at Maroon Bells, above Aspen Co., at a time when Galen and I were the only ones there. He was packing up when I arrived and in a few minutes announced he was going "down canyon". Jack
----- Original Message ----- From: Alunfoto - Jostein Øksne <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Monday, November 4, 2013 3:44 PM Subject: Your opinion on mr Rowell? I just had an hour's visit to the Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop. http://www.mountainlight.com/ To those of you unfamiliar with it, it's the official gallery of photographer Galen Rowell. Rowell has been one of my heroes for more than twenty years. More so than Ansel Adams, for example. It was great to have the opportunity to see some of his work printed large and hung on walls. It was also interesting to see so many of his shots hung together. He was very much a colour photographer, often accused of practicing "velvia aesthetics". While I usually fail to understand why that is a derogatory term, I did become a bit overwhelmed after perusing the fifth wall of prints. Then I stumbled upon one of his books "My Tibet", for which the Dalai Lama had provided the text. It had a bundle of those typical colour photos I know him for, including the iconic picture of the rainbow coming down on the Palace in Lhasa (P19 on this page: http://mountainlight.com/posters.html). What dominated the book, however, were pictures of people. More subtly rendered, but with a lot of impact. Are some of you folks familiar with this book? What are your thoughts about it? I'd like to hear your opinions about Galen Rowell in general too, of course. Right now I'm wondering whether I'll be able to fit the book into my luggage for the return flight. That seems to be the only thing stopping me from buying it at the moment; along with a retrospective book that's fairly new. :-) Jostein -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
