Galen A. Rowell

Essays and color photographs reveal the art, techniques, and philosophy behind the renowned photographer's craft.

Galen Rowell's Inner Game of Outdoor Photography

Eighty color photographs arranged to reflect the infinitely varying qualities of light in mountain landscapes are accompanied by the author's philosophy of photography, the development of his personal style, and the methods guiding his work

In Search of the Dynamic Landscape

Mountain Light

Pokhara in the Shadow of the Annapurnas

The twentieth century’s most celebrated adventure photographer, Galen Rowell, spent much of his life roaming the world with his camera, chronicling exotic locales on all seven continents. Yet he always returned to the land where he started out, both as an adventurer and a photographer: California’s Sierra Nevada. Indeed, in the two years before his death in a 2002 plane crash, Rowell became increasingly focused on photographing the "Range of Light,” producing some of the strongest images of his career. Now the best of his lifetime’s work in his "favorite place on earth” is gathered in this magnificent book, reproduced to the highest standards from digital masters of his 35mm frames. From the lofty cliffs and lush alpine meadows of Yosemite to the stark high desert of the Owens Valley, from the jagged High Sierra crest to the soft contours of the Eastside’s Buttermilk Hills, Rowell captured the Sierra Nevada in his signature "dynamic landscapes,” which combined an artist’s vision, an adventurer’s total access, and a peerless knowledge of optical phenomena in high and wild places. An introduction by Robert Roper traces Rowell's deep roots in the Sierra--a mountain realm he saw in ways no one else has, before or since.

Galen Rowell's Sierra Nevada

In sixty essays from his Outdoor Photographer magazine column, the renowned photographer presents a practical guide to his craft, replete with personal anecdotes and artistic philosophy.

The Art of Adventure Photography

Galen Rowell's Vision

Presents a comprehensive retrospective of the work of nature photographer Galen Rowell, including images of such subjects as climbing, expeditionary feats, exotic cultures, endangered wildlife, and rare natural phenomena.

A Retrospective

Galen Rowell

In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods

World Wildlife Fund

Frans Lanting

David Doubilet

A companion volume to the World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet campaign describes in text and glorious full-color photographs the group's efforts to preserve 232 rich and imperiled ecoregions that are essential to preserving the health of the planet. 35,000 first printing.

Preserving Edens of the Earth

Living Planet

A member of an American mountaineering team that set off in 1975 to climb the world's second highest peak in Pakistan's Karakoram range tells of the successes and failures that have marked various expeditions

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