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DOCUMERICA
Documerica (portmanteau of "document" and "America"; stylized as DOCUMERICA) was a program sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to "photographically document subjects of environmental concern" in the United States from about 1972 to 1977. The collection, now at the National Archives, contains over 22,000 photographs, more than 15,000 of which are available online. Scope With support from the first EPA administrator, William Ruckelshaus, project director Gifford D. Hampshire contracted well-known photographers to work for the EPA on the project. Estimates of the number involved range between 70 and 120, including Erik Calonius, Dennis Cowals, Gene Daniels, Ken Hayman, Anne LaBastille, Danny Lyon, Boyd Norton, Yoichi Okamoto, Charles O'Rear, Marc St. Gil, Flip Schulke, Tomas Sennett, Bill Strode, Suzanne Szasz, Arthur Tress and John H. White. They were organized geographically, with each photographer working in a particular area in which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Cowals
Dennis A. Cowals (12 May 1945 22 October 2004) was an American photojournalist and publisher who contributed many photos to the United States Environmental Protection Agency sponsored DOCUMERICA project. Early career Cowals graduated from the Medill School of Journalism with a degree in journalism, and went on to attended the University of Alaska for his post-graduate studies in 1967. He worked as a photographer and news editor at the university starting in 1968. He became press secretary for congressman Don Young in 1971. Environmental Protection Agency sponsored DOCUMERICA project began in the early 1970s. Cowals was hired to photograph the Alaskan landscape before and during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Hundreds of photos he took during this time period have since been published. He focused on both ground and aerial photos of geography, flora, and fauna. They are now in the public domain. Later life Cowals was part of the Mount McKinley Den ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles O'Rear
Charles O'Rear (born November 26, 1941) is an American photographer and author, known for photographing ''Bliss'', the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, and for being a ''National Geographic'' photographer from 1971 to 1995. O'Rear was born in Butler, Missouri, and developed an interest in photography at a young age. He started his career at the ''Butler Daily Democrat'' and later worked as a photographer for the '' Emporia Gazette'', ''The Kansas City Star'', and ''Los Angeles Times'' newspapers. He then worked as a freelancer for ''The New York Times'' and Western Airlines. O'Rear participated in the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project in the 1970s, where he is credited with the most photographs. He was hired by ''National Geographic'' in 1971, covering Old Believers, Napa Valley, and various international stories. He worked for the magazine until 1995 and is the only photographer to have appeared on its cover. Following his Nap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Strode
William Hall Strode III (August 6, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky – May 15, 2006) was an American photographer.Former NPPA President William H. Strode, 69 In 1966, the Pictures of the Year Competition hosted by the and the (NPAA) named Strode Photographer of the Year. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leakey, Texas
Leakey ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Real County, Texas, United States. The population was 315 at the 2020 census. The city is named for John H. Leakey (1824–1900), a pioneer from Tennessee. The Alto Frio Baptist Encampment is located to the southeast of the community. History Archaeological excavations in the Frio Canyon region revealed Paleo-American, Archaic, and Neo-American occupations. Later, several Native American tribes, including Lipan Apache, Comanche, and Tonkawa inhabited or traversed the area. Anglo-American settlement of the area began in 1856 when John Leakey, his wife Nancy, and a few others settled near a spring along the banks of the Frio River. Shingles and lumber were produced from the abundant cypress and cedar trees. In its first few years, the community was a lonely outpost that was subject to frequent Indian raids, which continued until 1882. Growth accelerated after the Civil War as new families arrived. In 1883, A.G. Vogel moved a post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Archives And Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents that make up the National Archives. NARA is officially responsible for maintaining and publishing the legally authentic and authoritative copies of acts of Congress, presidential directives, and federal regulations. NARA also transmits votes of the Electoral College to Congress. It also examines Electoral College and constitutional amendment ratification documents for prima facie legal sufficiency and an authenticating signature. The National Archives, and its publicly exhibited Charters of Freedom, which include the original United States Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, United States Bill of Rights, Emancipation Proclamation (starting in 2026), and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boyd Norton
Boyd Norton (born April 8, 1936) is an American photographer, known for his work in wilderness photography and his Environmentalism, environmental activism. He is the photographer/author of 17 books covering topics such as from African elephants, mountain gorillas, Siberia's Lake Baikal and issues of Alaskan and Ecology of the Rocky Mountains, Rocky Mountain conservation. He contributed photographs to the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica project in the early 1970s. Life and career In August 1960, during a cross-country trip to California, Norton fell in love with the Teton Range and took a job as a Nuclear physics, nuclear scientist with the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Idaho Falls, IdahoBoyd Norton (2016), Conservation Photography Handbook, chapter 1, Amherst Media so that he could live nearby. Hells Canyon, located at the border of Oregon and Idaho, was the first place where Norton used his photography to further an environmental cause. In 1969, his ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Lyon
Danny Lyon (born March 16, 1942) is an American photographer and filmmaker. All of Lyon's publications work in the style of photographic New Journalism, meaning that the photographer has become immersed in, and is a participant of, the documented subject. He is the founding member of the publishing group ''Bleak Beauty.'' After being accepted as the photographer for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lyon was present at almost all of the major historical events during the Civil Rights Movement. He has had solo exhibits at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Lyon twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Rockefeller Fellowship, Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism; and a Lucie Award. Early life Lyon was born in 1942 in Brooklyn, New York and is the son of Russian-Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne LaBastille
Anne LaBastille (November 20, 1933 – July 1, 2011)Hevesi, Dennis ''The New York Times'', July 9, 2011. Retrieved 11 Dec 2011 was an American author, ecologist, and photographer. She was the author of more than a dozen books, including ''Woodswoman'', ''Beyond Black Bear Lake'', and ''Women of the Wilderness''. She also wrote over 150 articles and over 25 scientific papers. She was honored by the World Wildlife Fund and the Explorers Club for her pioneering work in wildlife ecology in the United States and Guatemala. LaBastille also took many wildlife photographs, many of which were published in nature publications. Early life and marriage LaBastille was born in Montclair, New Jersey, the only child of Ferdinand LaBastille – a professor, and Irma Goebel – a concert pianist, stage actress and musician. Her full name was Mariette Anne LaBastille, though she never used her first name. While her date of birth is often listed as Nov 20, 1935, her true date of birth was November ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzanne Szasz
Suzanne Szasz (October 20, 1915 – July 3, 1997) was a Hungarian-born American photographer of children and family life. Biography Born Suzanne Szekely in 1915 in Budapest, daughter of Joseph Szekely, a doctor, and Maria (). At thirty-one, Szasz moved to the United States in 1946. In 1947, she divorced her first husband Sandor Szasz, a diplomat, and working in New York State that year as a counsellor at a children's summer camp Szasz began photographing with a borrowed camera. Encouraged by winning a cover competition for the ''Ladies' Home Journal'', she became a freelance photographer, selling pictures to ''Life'', '' Look'', ''Parents'', ''Good Housekeeping'', ''McCall's'' and ''Family Circle''. An example of her work of this period, rare because it was specially commissioned instead of being "on spec", is a story she made, with minimum equipment and mostly available light, over the course of eight months in 1952 for ''Women's Home Companion'' magazine; photographs in the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Tress
Arthur Tress (born November 24, 1940) is an American photographer. He is known for his staged surrealism and exposition of the human body. Early life and education Tress comes from a Jewish background; his parents immigrated from Europe. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. The youngest of four children in a divorced family, he spent time in his early life with both his father, who remarried and lived in an upper-class neighborhood, and his mother, who remained single after the divorce. His sister was the lawyer and gay rights advocate Madeleine Tress. At age 12, he began to photograph circus freaks and dilapidated buildings around Coney Island in New York City, where he grew up. Tress has said that "growing up as a gay man in the 1950s was not easy, especially at school." Tress attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Coney Island. He studied painting at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962. After graduation he moved to Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LOS ANGELES IN HEAVY SMOG - NARA - 552394
LOS, or Los, or LoS may refer to: Science and technology * Length of stay, the duration of a single episode of hospitalisation * Level of service, a measure used by traffic engineers * Level of significance, a measure of statistical significance * Line-of-sight (other) * LineageOS, a free and open-source operating system for smartphones and tablet computers * Loss of signal ** Fading **End of pass (spaceflight) * Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic Medicine and biology * Lipooligosaccharide, a bacterial lipopolysaccharide with a low-molecular-weight * Lower oesophageal sphincter Arts and entertainment * '' The Land of Stories'', a series of children's novels by Chris Colfer * Los, or the Crimson King, a character in Stephen King's novels * Los (band), a British indie rock band from 2008 to 2011 * Los (Blake), a character in William Blake's poetry * Los (rapper) (born 1982), stage name of American rapper Carlos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomas Sennett
Tomas may refer to: People * Tomás (given name), a Spanish, Portuguese, and Gaelic given name * Tomas (given name), a Swedish, Dutch, and Lithuanian given name * Tomáš, a Czech and Slovak given name * Tomàs, a Catalan given name and surname * Tomas (surname), a French and Croatian surname * Tomás (surname), a Spanish and Portuguese surname * Tomaš (surname), a Croatian surname * ''Tomas.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of Ruggero Tomaselli (1920–1982), Italian botanist Places * Tomaš, Croatia, a village near Bjelovar * Tomaș River, a tributary of the Gârbăul Mare River in Romania * Tomas District, Peru Other uses * Tropical Storm Tomas (other), numerous storms * ''Tomas'' (novel), 2009 novel by James Palumbo * Convento de Santo Tomás (Madrid) See also * Thomas (other) Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
