Galen Rowell
Photographer
1940-08-23
Quotes by Galen Rowell
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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.
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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.
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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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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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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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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
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