Description: About this Item The item is a book Paperback The Author Name is Brent Martin The Title is George Masa's Wild Vision : A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina Condition New Other Comments Pages Count - 160. Binding type - Hardcover. Content Language - English Category - PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographe NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection Product Description - Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Award2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award FinalistGeorge Masa's Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa. Self-taught photographer George Masa born Masahara Iizuka in Osaka, Japan, arrived in Asheville, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century amid a period of great transition in the southern Appalachians. Masa's photographs from the 1920s and early 1930s are stunning windows into an era where railroads hauled out the remaining old-growth timber with impunity, new roads were blasted into hillsides, and an activist community emerged to fight for a new national park. Masa began photographing the nearby mountains and helping to map the Appalachian Trail, capturing this transition like no other photographer of his time. His images, along with his knowledge of the landscape, became a critical piece of the argument for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, compelling John D. Rockefeller to donate 5 million for initial land purchases. Despite being hailed as the "Ansel Adams of the Smokies," Masa died, destitute and unknown, in 1933. In George Masa's Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina, poet and environmental organizer Brent Martin explores the locations Masa visited, using first-person narratives to contrast, lament, and exalt the condition of the landscape the photographer so loved and worked to interpret and protect. The book includes seventy-five of Masa's photographs, accompanied by Martin's reflections on Masa's life and work. We Use Stock Images Because we have over 2 million items for sale we have to use stock images, this listing does not include the actual image of the item for sale. The purchase of this specific item is made with the understanding that the image shown in this listing is a stock image and not the actual item for sale. For example: some of our stock images include stickers, labels, price tags, hyper stickers, obi's, promotional messages, signatures and or writing which may not be available in the actual item. When possible we will add details of the items we are selling to help buyers know what is included in the item for sale. The details are provided automatically from our central master database and can sometimes be wrong. Books are released in many editions and variations, such as standard edition, re-issue, not for sale, promotional, special edition, limited edition, and many other editions and versions. The Book you receive could be any of these editions or variations. If you are looking for a specific edition or version please contact us to verify what we are selling. Gift IdeasThis is a great Christmas gift idea. Hours of ServiceWe have many warehouses, some of the warehouses process orders seven days a week, but the Administration Support Staff are located at a head office location, outside of the warehouses, and typically work only Monday to Friday. Location ID 9000z iHaveit SKU ID 165626100
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UPC: 9781938235931
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Book Title: George Masa's Wild Vision : a Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Hub City Press
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Individual Photographers / General, General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Photography, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Author: Brent Martin
Item Length: 9.2 in
Book Series: Cold Mountain Fund Ser.
Item Width: 7.5 in
Format: Hardcover
