Galen Rowell
Galen Rowell
Galen Avery Rowellwas a wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth23 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
american-photographer began message pictures realise unless wrote
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
photography book heart
At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.
photography mean animal
I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
photography american-west people
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
photography memories important
Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
photography environmental roles
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
photography thinking landscape
I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
photography light differences
When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
photography book mentor
My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
photography light firsts
My first thought is always of light.
add american-photographer best bit component definitely work
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.