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Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography
- Title
- Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography / James H. McCommons.
- Author
- McCommons, James, 1957-
- Publication
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 392 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree, and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The pictures, stunning in detail and composition, celebrated American wildlife at a time when many species were going extinct because of habitat loss and unrestrained hunting. As a congressman and lawyer, Shiras joined forces with his friend Theodore Roosevelt, and scientists in Washington, D.C. who shaped the conservation movement during the Progressive Era. His legal and legislative efforts culminated with the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Camera Hunter recounts Shiras's life and craft as he traveled to wild country in North America, refined his trail camera techniques, and advocated for the protection of wildlife. This biography serves as an important record of Shiras's accomplishments as a visual artist, wildlife conservationist, adventurer, and legislator"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Whitefish Lake -- Pittsburgh roots -- Boyhood days in Michigan -- School days for blue bloods -- Camera hunting -- Pennsylvania politics -- The great bird mystery -- Camp life and camera traps -- A progressive goes to Washington -- The National Geographic Society -- Ormond Beach -- Bahamas, Mexico -- Newfoundland and nature fakers -- Eminent personalities -- Yellowstone and the Shiras moose -- The Kenai Peninsula -- Roosevelt-Newett Libel Trial -- The crusade to save birds -- The Shiras bear -- Gatun Lake and Panama -- The bullet is on the way -- The bird treaty -- Yellowstone Dam fight -- Kaibab Plateau -- Final bird battles -- The big book -- Last days.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-117
- ISBN
- 9780826354266
- 0826354262
- LCCN
- 2019013027
- OCLC
- 1096216222
- Author
- McCommons, James, 1957- author.
- Title
- Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography / James H. McCommons.
- Publisher
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: McCommons, James, 1957- author. Camera hunter Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019 9780826354273 (DLC) 2019015936
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-117