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.
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
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