Local author of Yosemite
Page 4 • Wednesday, October 21, 2015 • The Hammonton Gazette
YOSEMITE, from Page 1
who worked at Yosemite National
Park in California. Yosemite National Park is located deep within
California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains and attracts over four million
tourists annually. it is best known
for its amazing waterfalls and giant
sequoia trees.
She recently released a book titled, very appropriately, Yosemite:
Art of an American Icon. the book
features chapters on many different
aspects of life at Yosemite, each of
which has some sort of influence on
the art that has come from the park
and its world renowned history.
“i always thought i would publish a book on this specific art, the
art of Yosemite Valley, paintings
and photographs. i just never found
a publisher for it. i published an article on the prints of Yosemite Valley and it was included in a book
during 2008 about Yosemite art as
an American icon. i did the 19th
Century painting chapter. i think it
was because of those articles that
this publisher in London, reaktion
Books, thought that maybe i would
write something on Yosemite for
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them … it ended up being sort of a Professor Kate Nearpass Ogden with her new book Yosemite. Ogden is piccultural history of a scenic locatured inside Casciano where she spent time working on the book
tion,” Ogden said.
You can also purchase her book or by visiting the University of
Ogden wrote the book after
online
through www.amazon.com Chicago Press Books website.
spending countless hours studying
the park’s rich and beautiful history.
She not only learned through her
own discoveries, but through those
of historians and artists who have
come before her. Not only is it
beautifully written, the book is illustrated with breathtaking paintings and lifelike photography of the
must-see scenery.
“the book is a lot of different
things. it’s an environmental history but also an art history and a little bit of Native American history,
although i’m not a real expert on
that part. there is geological history
and a little bit of religion ... So
there’s this whole interest in
whether we can make religion and
science work together,” Ogden
said.
Yosemite ” is a cultural history of
a spectacular scenic location. it begins with the valley’s geological
origins, the life of the Native Americans who lived there, its discovery
by AngloAmericans in the mid19th century, and the preservation
of the valley, first as a state park
and then as one of America’s first
great national parks.
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