How Long to Read The Legacy of Wildness

How Long Does it Take to Read The Legacy of Wildness?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 3 minutes to read The Legacy of Wildness by Robert Glenn Ketchum

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Description

The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum is the first major retrospective of a world-renowned landscape photographer whose artistry is equalled only by his commitment to the environment. To activist photographer Robert Glenn Ketchum, art and advocacy go hand in hand. Whether depicting the rugged grandeur of the American countryside or the mournful beauty of virgin wilderness violated by progress, his landscapes reject sentimentality. Instead, they document his deep respect and compassion for our irreplaceable natural resources. Ketchum was the only United States artist selected for a one-man exhibition at the UNCED Earth Summit in Rio. He has received the United Nations Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award for his photographs of deforestation, pollution, and mismanagement of public lands. Honored with the Sierra Club's coveted Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography, he currently serves as the Curator of Photography for the National Parks Foundation in Washington, D.C. His book The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest was instrumental in educating government officials and the public about the environmental degradation of the Alaskan rain forest and helped enact the Timber Reform Act. Ketchum's experience of landscape as environment - both in the ecological sense and as the aggregate of circumstances and conditions that confront the outdoor photographer - is as varied and unique as his titles suggest. His first series, "Twilight", begun in 1972, deals with cliche subjects such as fall foliage and scenic views. Here, Ketchum introduces a new hierarchy where pure color is the subject of the image. "Winters: 1970-1980" consists of black-and-whitephotographs of white-on-white environments. The images are vaporous, ghostly and haiku-like. "Order from Chaos", large-size photographs in overwhelmingly brilliant colors, marks the beginning of Ketchum's environmental work. The Hudson River and the Highlands, The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest, and Overlooked in America: The Success and Failure of Federal Land Management document the landscape nonabstractly, tending toward description as they attempt to define a sense of place. By awakening us to often-ignored settings, Ketchum immortalizes the obscure rather than the iconographic. In his new series, "Planetary Graffiti" and "Stoned Immaculate", Ketchum completes the cycle that includes "Winters: 1970-1980" and "Order from Chaos". "Planetary Graffiti" consists of black-and-white aerial photographs made with experimental Polaroid film that produces instant black-and-white slide positives; Ketchum attempts to depict man-made grid forms intersecting with the larger organic forms and shapes of the planet. Entirely in color, "Stoned Immaculate" is the photographer's first and only completely abstract body of work with no overriding environmental message. "The Sundance Suite" was made from 1987 to 1990, during Ketchum's tenure as artist-in-residence at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah. It concentrates on political concerns like the air quality in the Salt Lake Basin - considered the worst in the nation; the building of the Jordanelle Dam - the last great water boondoggle project in the West; and the real estate development of the Park City-Deer Valley ski area. Finally, a small group of photographs on silk result from Ketchum's repeated visits to China since 1982. Invitedby the People's Republic to work at the Suzhou Embroidery Research Institute, Ketchum personally oversaw the translation of a number of his pictures onto silk-embroidered tapestries and multipaneled screens. With a preface by Robert Redford and an essay by distinguished ecologist and author John Perlin, The Legacy of Wildness: The Photographs of Robert Glenn Ketchum is a work of great innovation and integrity.

How long is The Legacy of Wildness?

The Legacy of Wildness by Robert Glenn Ketchum is 119 pages long, and a total of 30,821 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Legacy of Wildness Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 48 minutes to read The Legacy of Wildness aloud.

What Reading Level is The Legacy of Wildness?

The Legacy of Wildness is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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