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In the early 1960s the federal government announced a plan to control the Colorado River by building a series of hydroelectric dams. The plan set off a storm of protest. The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit, arguing that one of those dams, to be built at the entrance to the Grand Canyon, would mean the destruction of Glen Canyon, a jewel-like oasis, one of the most beautiful natural wonders of the desert Southwest. But the lawsuit failed, and the dam was built, resulting in the formation of 200-mile-long Lake Powell, one of the largest artificial bodies of water on the planet--and in the inundation of Glen Canyon, which environmentalists called "the place no one knew."
In the early 1960s the federal government announced a plan to control the Colorado River by building a series of hydroelectric dams. The plan set off a storm of protest. The Sierra Club filed a lawsuit, arguing that one of those dams, to be built at the entrance to the Grand Canyon, would mean the destruction of Glen Canyon, a jewel-like oasis, one of the most beautiful natural wonders of the desert Southwest. But the lawsuit failed, and the dam was built, resulting in the formation of 200-mile-long Lake Powell, one of the largest artificial bodies of water on the planet--and in the inundation of Glen Canyon, which environmentalists called "the place no one knew."
Photographer and filmmaker Tad Nichols did know Glen Canyon, so well that many of the area's place names are the ones that he and his fellow explorers and friends gave them. In this stunning book of documentary photography, Nichols takes readers on a voyage down the Colorado River, traversing stone labyrinths, wild rapids, and narrow beaches. Accompanied by entries from his travel journals of the 1950s and early '60s, his photographs show us just how much was lost when Glen Canyon receded beneath Lake Powell's waters--and what we stand to regain if, as advocates hope, Glen Canyon Dam is dismantled and the Colorado River is allowed to flow freely once again. --Gregory McNamee
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Nichols photographed and studied Glen Canyon in southeastern Utah from 1950 through 1963, when it was flooded to create Lake Powell, and it is difficult to study this book without its becoming a visual obituary for that extraordinarily powerful, unforgiving, and unspoiled canyon. The volume's more than 160 black-and-white images demonstrate the enduring quality of duotone photographs in honoring a place. The photographer learned most of his technical skills from two masters, Eliot Porter and Ansel Adams, and his photographs are outstanding. They are printed very dark and show a superb control of light, shadow, and silhouette. The text comes from Nichols's journal entries (which correspond to many of the scenes depicted) and from other essays of appreciation. Since color is often mentioned some color images of this now-flooded canyon would have nicely complemented the text and broadened our understanding of what has been lost. Recommended.
-David Bryant, New Canaan P.L.,CT
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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