威尼斯人娱乐场 Celebrates National Park Service Centennial May 11
Press Release 路 Thursday, April 28, 2016
Washington, DC
Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First NPS Photographer
Washington, DC鈥n Wednesday, May 11, at noon, the 威尼斯人娱乐场 celebrates the National Park Service centennial with a special program titled: Landscapes for the People: George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service. This program is free and open to the public and will be held in the William G. McGowan Theater of the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Museum in Washington, DC. Attendees should use the Special Events entrance on Constitution Avenue at 7th Street, NW. Metro accessible on the Yellow and Green lines, Archives/Navy Memorial/Penn Quarter station. A book signing follows the event.
George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Although millions of people have viewed Grant鈥檚 photographs of the American landscape, few knew his name. In Landscapes for the People, authors Ren and Helen Davis share his story through his remarkable images, showing Grant鈥檚 unsurpassed love of the National Parks. Landscapes for the People shares Grant鈥檚 story through his remarkable images and a biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve.
Grant鈥檚 images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant鈥檚 photography be introduced to a new generation of Americans.
The National Park Service was established in the Department of the Interior on August 25, 1916. There are close to 400 units in the National Park System, including national parks, monuments and memorials, scenic parkways, preserves, reserves, trails, rivers, wild and scenic rivers, seashores, lake shores, recreation areas, battlefields, parks and sites, national military parks, international historic sites, and historic sites associated with important movements, events, and personalities of the American past. The 威尼斯人娱乐场 holds the permanently valuable records of the National Parks Service, including photographs by Ansel Adams.
Related online resources:
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听 - : 鈥淗appy Birthday, Rocky Mountain National Park鈥�
听 - : 鈥� Kodacolor Decoded: Early Color Footage of Yellowstone National Park.鈥� See related , Press release, before and after
听 - : Glacier National Park/Lassen National Park/Sequoia National Park
听 - : Seeing Yosemite from a Saddle and related 威尼斯人娱乐场
听 - : Yellowstone Footage Side-by-Side Comparison
听 - : The Fountain of Life: Rocky Mountain National Park
听 - : 鈥淭inted or toned NPS films in the 威尼斯人娱乐场 Motion Picture Preservation Lab鈥�
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