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Stopping Time - A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe (Paperback, New)
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Stopping Time - A Rephotographic Survey of Lake Tahoe (Paperback, New)
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Lake Tahoe is one of America's most pristine, beautiful alpine
lakes. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada at 6,229 feet above sea level,
Lake Tahoe has also become an important symbol for issues dealing
with land and water use, resource management, urban growth, and,
most important here, how we perceive the landscape. Starting with
nineteenth-century photographs from a variety of national and local
archives, the authors have provided more than one hundred
comparative photographs representing a visual document of the
evolving landscape within the Tahoe Basin. Lake Tahoe attracted
tourists in droves in the late nineteenth century, but the logging
industry wrought extensive damage to the land. Now, as
second-growth forests are maturing, new problems challenge the
Tahoe basin's identity. Well known for the clarity of its deep
water, the lake is now threatened by urban sewage and motor boat
traffic. The fish population has yet to return to its presettlement
abundance. Ever-increasing building demands confront the fragile
ecosystem. From the beginning of permanent settlements at Lake
Tahoe, the basin was viewed as both a mining resource and a resort
area, identities which have come to be contradictory. Stopping Time
confronts issues that have come to the fore in the late twentieth
century--how we use the land, how we perceive the landscape, and
what our perceptions mean for the future. The notion of an "ideal
landscape" is explored in Elizabeth Raymond's informative essay,
and how that notion itself has evolved since the nineteenth
century. This book is essential to anyone concerned with the visual
record of the American continent and with how our attitudes and
ideals interact with the ever-pressingneed to preserve our national
resources like Lake Tahoe.
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