fb pixcode

PHOTOGRAPHY SURVEYS | COLLECTIONS | MOVEMENTS | EXHIBITIONS

PUBLISHER
Radius Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11.25 x 13 in. / 212 pgs / 80 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 111   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781942185253 TRADE
List Price: $65.00 CDN $87.00 GBP £57.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

DOWNLOAD THE SPRING 2023 CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our Spring 2023 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.

BOOKSELLER TRADE ANNOTATION

The story of water in the West, climate change, and the birth of modern environmentalism told through the history of Glen Canyon on the Colorado River.
  • ABOUT THE BOOK: 1963 construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and the resulting flooding and destruction of the red-rock canyon along the Arizona Utah border became a catalysis for the modern environmentalist movement.Using as their starting point photographer Eliot Porter's ode to the lost River The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado, the authors use archival images & documents and contemporary photographs & text to show "the madness of the past and the terror of the future"ť.
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Writer & Activist REBECCA SOLNIT is the author of 17 books, including Men Explain Things to Me and The Mother of All Questions. She lives in San Francisco.
  • ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Photographer Mark Klett lives in Tempe, Arizona, teaches at Arizona State University. Prior books include Mark Klett: Saguaros and Mark Klett: Camino del Diablo. Photographer Byron Wolfe teaches at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.

  

RADIUS BOOKS

Drowned River

The Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado

Photographs by Mark Klett, Byron Wolfe. Text by Rebecca Solnit.

In 1963 the waters began rising behind Glen Canyon Dam and 170 miles of the Colorado River slowly disappeared as the riverbed and surrounding canyons filled with water. 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, resulting in the publication of the landmark 1963 photobook The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado.

But in an unexpected victory that speaks to the pervasive disaster of climate change, the reservoir is now declining and the Colorado River is coming back. Photographers Byron Wolfe (born 1967) and Mark Klett (born 1952), along with writer Rebecca Solnit (born 1961), spent five years exploring the place as expectations and possibilities changed, and the river reemerged at the upper end of the reservoir.

In dialogue with Porter’s book, Klett and Wolfe retraced the physical locations where Porter made his photographs, now often submerged by the reservoir’s waters. Solnit’s accompanying text meditates on the meanings and histories of the place, drawing from both the trio’s explorations and archival research.

Drowned River is a book about climate change, about “the madness of the past and the terror of the future” (as Solnit puts it). But it is also a book about how photography can describe beauty and trouble simultaneously, and what it takes to understand a place and to come to terms with the changes we have set in motion.


PRAISE AND REVIEWS

PDN's Notable Photo Books of 2018

Porter’s images brought attention to the place, and galvanized the Sierra Club and the growing environmental movement’s opposition to similar projects in the future.

Drowned River

in stock  $65.00


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FORTHCOMING AND NEW: PHOTOGRAPHY

Jamel Shabazz: Albums

JAMEL SHABAZZ: ALBUMS

STEIDL/THE GORDON PARKS FOUNDATION

ISBN: 9783969990957
USD $50.00
| CAN $70

Pub Date: 3/14/2023
Active | In stock


Dry Hole

DRY HOLE

ARCHIVE OF MODERN CONFLICT/MöREL

ISBN: 9781907071904
USD $50.00
| CAN $70 UK £ 44

Pub Date: 12/13/2022
Active | In stock


The Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl Collection of European Women Photographers 2000–2020

THE SIR MARK FEHRS HAUKOHL COLLECTION OF EUROPEAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS 2000–2020

STEIDL

ISBN: 9783969991428
USD $65.00
| CAN $90

Pub Date: 2/20/2024
Forthcoming


The Pleasure of Seeing

THE PLEASURE OF SEEING

DAMIANI

ISBN: 9788862087933
USD $59.95
| CAN $83.95

Pub Date: 5/16/2023
Forthcoming


Events of the Social: Portraiture and Collective Agency

EVENTS OF THE SOCIAL: PORTRAITURE AND COLLECTIVE AGENCY

STEIDL/THE WALTHER COLLECTION

ISBN: 9783969990872
USD $45.00
| CAN $63

Pub Date: 1/17/2023
Active | In stock


Africa: Discovering Wildlife Parks

AFRICA: DISCOVERING WILDLIFE PARKS

SKIRA

ISBN: 9788857248578
USD $60.00
| CAN $84

Pub Date: 4/25/2023
Forthcoming


World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

WORLD PRESS PHOTO YEARBOOK 2023

HATJE CANTZ

ISBN: 9783775754330
USD $39.95
| CAN $55.95

Pub Date: 6/20/2023
Forthcoming


The Opéra

THE OPéRA

KERBER

ISBN: 9783735608529
USD $180.00
| CAN $252

Pub Date: 5/23/2023
Forthcoming


Men Like Hitler

MEN LIKE HITLER

SPECTOR BOOKS

ISBN: 9783959056311
USD $40.00
| CAN $56

Pub Date: 8/8/2023
Forthcoming


Dreams of the Spider Woman

DREAMS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN

RM/EDICIONES LARIVIERE

ISBN: 9788419233332
USD $60.00
| CAN $84

Pub Date: 2/28/2023
Active | In stock


World Press Photo Yearbook 2023

WORLD PRESS PHOTO YEARBOOK 2023

HATJE CANTZ

ISBN: 9783775754330
USD $39.95
| CAN $55.95

Pub Date: 6/20/2023
Forthcoming


Norwegian Scenic Routes

NORWEGIAN SCENIC ROUTES

FORLAGET PRESS

ISBN: 9788232804450
USD $50.00
| CAN $70 UK £ 43

Pub Date: 7/4/2023
Forthcoming