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Yosemite in Time: Ice Ages, Tree Clocks, Ghost Rivers by Mark Klett, Rebecca Solnit, and Byron Wolfe.
Hardcover, 144 pages. Trinity University Press.
Here's a QuickTime slideshow with several pages from the book (15 pages, 1.8 megabytes).
Publisher's Description
Yosemite is a world-famous destination that has attracted celebrated photographers such as Eadweard Muybridge, Edward Weston, and Ansel Adams, along with environmental organizations, rock climbers, and tourists. Yosemite in Time puts this park in a new light with re-photographs of some of the most enduring images taken at Yosemite, and three essays by noted cultural critic Rebecca Solnit. The photographs and essays reconsider the iconic status of Yosemite in America's conception of wilderness, examining how the place was appropriated by its early Euro-American visitors and showing how our conceptions of landscape have altered and how land has changed — or not — over time. Arresting and incisive, Yosemite in Time is an intimate reconsideration of a park that millions of people hold dear.
-"Lovely and important." – San Francisco Chronicle
"A fresh look at Yosemite's iconic status" – Marin Magazine
"Beautifully rendered." – National Geographic Adventure
Four Views from Four Times and One Shoreline, Lake Tenaya
From left to right: Eadweard Muybridge, 1872, Ansel Adams, c. 1942, and Edward Weston, 1937.
Back panels: Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe, 2002. Swatting high-country mosquitoes at Lake Tenaya.
