Background
Philip Hyde was born on August 15, 1921 in San Francisco, California, United States.
(Words by Edward Abbey. Photographs and commantary by Phil...)
Words by Edward Abbey. Photographs and commantary by Philip Hyde.
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Philip Hyde was born on August 15, 1921 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Philip Hyde first attended Ansel Adams' photography program at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), beginning with the Summer Session in 1946 and enrolling in the full-time professional photography training, the first of its kind, in the Fall of 1947, studying under photographers such as Edward Weston, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange. Out of thousands of Ansel Adams' students, Hyde was one of the few Ansel Adams asked to teach with him.
Philip Hyde made his first back country fine art landscape photograph in 1942. His photographs helped protect such national treasures as the Grand Canyon, Dinosaur National Monument, Denali, Tongass National Forest, Canyonlands, the Coast Redwoods, Point Reyes, King’s Canyon, the North Cascades, Oregon Cascades, High Sierra Wilderness, Big Sur, the Wind River Range, Islands off Puerto Rico and many others. Philip Hyde trained under Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Lisette Model and other definers of the medium at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute.
Because of the historical significance of his work, a common misconception is that Philip Hyde was a photographer of a bygone era. In reality, he photographed for 58 years until he was 79 years old, into the new millennium. His work was always ahead of its time and went far beyond the classical landscapes for which he is known. His unique photographic vision and novel compositions are widely emulated today.
Philip Hyde is generally acknowledged as one of the most influential of all outdoor photographers. Two of his most noted images are his 1964 color conservation icon, "Cathedral In The Desert, Glen Canyon," that American Photo Magazine named one of the top 100 photographs of the 20th Century and "The Minarets From Tarn Above Lake Ediza," a vintage black and white photograph, made in what is now the Ansel Adams Wilderness in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Ansel Adams said that he liked this 1950 photograph of the Minarets better than his own.
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1971Alder, Redwoods, Fog
(Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California)
1962Steamboat Rock, Echo Park
(Dinosaur National Monument, Utah-Colorado)
1955View Upriver from Toroweap Overlook
(Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona)
1964Green River at Anderson Bottom
(Canyonlands National Park, Utah)
1971Mt. Denali, Reflection Pond
(Denali National Park, Alaska)
1971Escalante River Near Willow Canyon
(Glen Canyon, Utah)
1964Tenpeak Range, Glacier Peak Wilderness
(Washington)
1956Drake’s Beach
(Pt. Reyes National Seashore, California)
1972photography