Numbered Collector’s Edition,
Galen Rowell: A Retrospective
Foreword by Tom Brokaw, Biographical Introduction by
Robert Roper, A Critic’s Perspective by Andy Grundberg
Sierra Club Books (2006)
288 pages
Collector’s Edition: B30C • $195.00
This special numbered Collector’s Edition of 500 copies from the first printing of Galen Rowell: A Retrospective comes specially bound and in a custom-made clamshell case. An 8" x 12" Crystal Archive LightJet print of Galen Rowell’s photograph, Self-portrait at Dawn, Torres del Paine, Patagonia, Chile (1985), is secured in a vellum envelope inside the clamshell. A pair of white cotton gloves is included for handling this beautiful volume.
288 pages, 188 photographs, and essays by:
• Tom Brokaw, Former anchor and managing editor, NBC
Nightly News
• Andy Grundberg, Photography critic and Chair of
Photography at Corcoran School of Art
• Sir Frans Lanting, National Geographic Photographer-in-
Residence
• Dr. George B. Schaller, Eminent field biologist
• Conrad Anker, Alpinist and explorer
• Jon Beckmann, Former Publisher, Sierra Club Books
• John Ackerly, President, International Campaign for Tibet
• Doug Robinson, Mountaineer
• Robert Roper, Novelist and non-fiction author
• Justin Black and Dean Stevens, Mountain Light Photography
General Manager and Image Collection Manager
“Galen Rowell [had] a wonderful combination of qualities – eye, energy, intelligence, sensitivity, courage both physical and moral, and above all, heart. Very seldom have I experienced so clearly defined the connection between the artist and what he sees, feels, and does with the work itself.”
—Robert Redford
Galen Rowell was the archetypal adventure photographer, his iconic images published in leading magazines and scores of books, exhibited in major galleries, and cherished by fans ranging from the Dalai Lama to news anchor Tom Brokaw. When he and his wife and business partner, Barbara Cushman Rowell, perished in a small plane crash in 2002, he had just completed a landmark assignment for National Geographic and had begun making stunning new images of his favorite old haunts in the Sierra Nevada.
Fortunately for us, his productivity was immense and his photographs meticulously archived, making possible this first and only comprehensive retrospective of his work. Rowell himself had no time for looking back: his creative energies went into books that combine his images and writings on a wide range of subjects including, climbing and expeditionary feats; exotic cultures; endangered wildlife and places; celebrations of light, color, and rare natural phenomena; and visionary interpretations of landscape.
All are magnificently on view in this retrospective, which includes more than 175 images representing all phases and dimensions of Rowell’s singular career, chosen by the editors with whom he worked most closely, overseen by his family and studio colleagues, and reproduced to the highest standards of lithography from digital masters of his 35mm frames. Complementing and illuminating the pictures are essays and commentaries by Rowell’s friends and associates from the worlds of mountaineering, conservation, photography, and publishing, along with an in-depth biographical introduction by Robert Roper and an appreciation of his work by photography critic Andy Grundberg.
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