Earth Day is an annual observance focused on protecting the environment and encouraging people to care for the natural world. It is celebrated every year on April 22, and the first Earth Day took place in 1970...
Some of the most influential and famous landscape photographers in American history built their work around the national parks and landscapes of the American West. From Carleton Watkins and William Henry Jackson to Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Galen Rowell, their photographs helped define how generations of viewers—and photographers—learned to see wilderness...
National park photography grew from a long American tradition of artists and photographers using protected landscapes to shape how people see the wilderness. Long before Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Mount Rainier became destinations for travelers, painters such as Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran and photographers such as Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams used these places to create images that shaped how Americans saw the wilderness...
