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Landscapes for the People - George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service (Hardcover)
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Landscapes for the People - George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service (Hardcover)
Series: A Friends Fund Publication
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George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American
landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his
contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and
others, millions of people viewed Grant's photographs; unlike those
contemporaries, few even knew Grant's name. Landscapes for the
People shares his story through his remarkable images and a
compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication,
and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that
Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was
introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to
make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he
received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting
the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one
hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields,
and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic
expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal,
including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant's
images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for
composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in
their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known
contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert
with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is
fitting that George Grant's photography be introduced to a
newgeneration of Americans.
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