Traveling the world for eight decades, mountaineer, explorer,
cartographer, and aerial photographer Bradford Washburn has
documented the landscape from the Grand Canyon to the Alps, from
Mount McKinley to Mount Everest. Genius has inspired him to pioneer
photographic techniques that capture the most remote and inaccessible
points on earth under conditions worthy of a stunt man. Genius has
also transformed his photos-conceived for a purely functional
purpose-into works of expressive art. Now the career of America's
most celebrated mountain photographer is presented for the first time
in book form. In Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography, one hundred
large-format mountain photographs, selected from more than 10,000
images, take the reader through Washburn's lifetime of
accomplishments. Aerial images of high mountains, looking more like
bold relief maps, are captured in extreme raking light. There are
picture essays of early Alaskan expeditions-striking modern still
lifes of supply caches and camp conditions-plus portraits of team
members and colorful characters and situations encountered along the
way. Additional aerial photographs reveal, in breathtaking clarity,
the workings of the earth, continuously transformed by upheavals and
erosions, and the slow march and retreat of glaciers.
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