Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon Photography
The Grand Canyon is wild and unforgiving. But it is also one of the most stunning landscapes on Earth—a place for recreation, reflection and reverence. A new Smithsonian exhibition allows us to marvel at this natural wonder without camping equipment, emergency rations or rappelling ropes.
Featuring 60 color photographs, “Lasting Light: 125 Years of Grand Canyon
Photography” is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and the Grand Canyon Association.
The exhibition will be on view at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Massachusetts from October 13, 2012 through January 5, 2013, and will continue on a national tour through the remainder of the year.
“Lasting Light” reveals the dedication of those who have attempted to capture the Grand Canyon on film from the earliest days to modern times. Covering nearly 125 years of photographic history, the exhibition includes images of early photographers dangling from cables to get the perfect shot, their cumbersome camera equipment balanced precariously on their shoulders.
More modern images are bold and dramatic, revealing the canyon’s capricious weather, its flora and fauna, waterfalls and wading pools, and awe-inspiring cliffs and rock formations. The stunning contemporary images were selected by representatives from Eastman Kodak’s Professional Photography Division and National Geographic.
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free
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www.nationalheritagemuseum.org/Exhibitions/LastingLight.aspx
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33 Marrett Road, Lexington, MA, 02421 map
Phone: 781-861-6559
At the corner of Route 2A and Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington, MA
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