United States, Photographer August 23, 1940 – August, 11, 2002.
Galen Avery Rowell (August 23, 1940 – August 11, 2002) was a wilderness photographer, adventure photojounalist and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972.
Also known as Mountaineer, Rock Climber
I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
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