Eliot Porter made his first color photograph in 1939, the year he resigned from teaching and research to pursue photography as a career. Over the next fifty years, his work was exhibited widely and he produced more than two dozen books of his photographs. He became a passionate ambassador for environmental causes and, through his images, set the standard for color landscape photography and inspired generations of photographers to come. Robert Glenn Ketchum counts himself among them. Ketchum is among the leading contemporary photographers of the American landscape. His many books use fine art color photography to address environmental issues. The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, is a museum of American art. It houses one of the most important collections of photography in the country, including Eliot Porter's archives, which the artist bequeathed to the museum upon his death in 1990. The museum is also a repository of Ketchum's work, and Regarding the Land marks the first time that photographs by these two artists have been brought together into one volume. Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum and the Legacy of Eliot Porter has eighty-eight color and duotone plates. The book also includes chronologies of both artists and lists their publications and major exhibitions.

Regarding the Land: Robert Glenn Ketchum And the Legacy of Eliot Porter

Arts & Photography

Ketchum, Robert Glenn

Rohrbach, John

Photography & Video

Amon Carter Museum

Essy by Bruce Hampton. 
The renowned landscape photographer addresses conservation issues in Alaska. 
Covering an area larger than the state of Washington, southwest Alaska is a vast watershed that drains from the summits and uplands of the Alaska and Aleutian mountain ranges, west to Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea. 
Working with the support of numerous national foundations, Native corporations and villages, and all the state and federal offices that manage these lands, Robert Glenn Ketchum has brought his rich vision of the landscape and his history of pro-active work to bear on behalf of conservation of the freshwater habitat in the Bristol Bay watershed. His vibrant, encompassing photographs reveal a destination with which few of us are familiar, but one that has a stunning beauty and scale. 
The centennial edition of Audubon named Ketchum one of the one hundred champions of conservation "who shaped the environmental movement of the twentieth century." His prints can be found in most of the major museum collections in the United States, and he is exhibited internationally.

The Tongass : Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest

Ketchum, Carey D.

Aperture Foundation

In dramatic color photographs by renowned environmental photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum and in insightful text by Charles Callison, Overlooked in America warns of the careless devastation of America's federally-held lands.Using the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area as a metaphor for the complicated management problems surrounding federal lands, Ketchum reveals the imperiled beauty of these areas. A full one-third of all U.S. land-- including parks, beaches, forests, off-shore oil-deposits, and mountains-- is owned and managed by the federal government, whose stewardship is intended to renew and maintain this vast national treasure. Due to clashing intra-agency goals and the ever-changing policies of rotating administrations, the federal government has long been negligent in enforcing the mandate of sustainable development of these lands. Caught in the middle of a bureaucratic snarl, our national trust is at risk of substantial environmental deterioration such as overgrazing, loss of topsoil, deforestation, contamination of soil and water, and failure to restore developed areas already sacrificed for their resources.Stunning color photographs evoke the endangered elegance of the American landscape, from views of toxic brooks weaving through a forest floor to rustic barns set in the hills Overlooked in America makes a strong case for drastic changes in federal land management before our irreplaceable legacy is lost forever. Published to coincide with a traveling exhibit of Robert Glenn Ketchum's eloquent photographs, the book includes a preface by Mr. Ketchum and an essay by Charles Callison, of the National Resources Defense Council, on the achievements and shortcomings of federal land management.

Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management

Callison, Charles

Aperture

Breathtaking arctic vistas from one of the most celebrated photographers of the natural world.

Northwest Passage

Lopez,Barry

History & Criticism

Photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum provides dramatic color photographs of the unusual landscape found in southwest Alaska. The essay by wildlife biologist Bruce Hampton addresses the environmental issues involved in managing a habitat and sustainable fishery that meets the needs of all species. The publication was sponsored by the Alaska Conservation Foundation in order to make the public aware of the beauty and importance of the region's natural system. Oversize: 13x12.25

Rivers of Life: Southwest Alaska, the Last Great Salmon Fishery

Hampton, Bruce

Nestled in the foothills of idyllic Santa Barbara, California, this native plant garden has breathtaking views, majestic redwoods, spectacular wildflowers and much more. This gorgeous book, chock-full with more than 150 spectacular color photographs, captures the uniqueness of nature at its finest in the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

Nature's Kaleidoscope: The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Science & Math

Gardner, Theodore Roosevelt, II

Schott, Stephen G.

Biological Sciences

Allen a Knoll Pubs

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