CELEBRATING WILDERNESS PHOTOGRAPHER PHILIP HYDE

ACKNOWLEDGING OUR ROOTS

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care who gets the credit.

– PHILIP HYDE

On March 30, 2006, Philip Hyde passed away at the age of 84. The community of photographers and nature lovers lost a true friend and pioneer. I count myself as being very blessed for having known him.

Many years before meeting Philip back in the early 1980s, I discovered his work in the Sierra Club’s famous Exhibit Format series of books. His images opened my eyes, along with those of thousands of other photographers and wilderness enthusiasts, to the beautiful and endangered landscapes he had explored. He helped us see the great potential use that landscape photographs could ...

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