Eliot Porter
Author
Physical Desc
viii, 20 unnumbered pages, 163 pages : color illustrations, color facsimile, 3 maps (2 color) ; 35 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared. Environmentalists considered it a disaster and mourned Glen Canyon as gone forever. The Sierra Club joined forces with photographer Eliot Porter to document what would be lost under the dam's waters. But in an unexpected victory that speaks to the pervasive disaster of climate change, the reservoir is now declining and the Colorado River...