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Glen Canyon is located just northeast of the Grand Canyon.
Only a few people knew about the canyon in the early 1960s when Porter
started photographing there. The canyon was remote and had to be navigated
by canoe, boat, or raft. Porter's photographs of Glen Canyon inspired
David
Brower, executive director for the sierra club, to ask the artist
to collaborate on a book about the canyon, which was about to be flooded
behind a huge government-built dam. The Sierra Club wanted to use beautiful
photographs to persuade politicians to stop this and other dams planned
for the American Southwest.
Having grown up with a love of nature, Porter was delighted by the
challenge of using artistic
photography
to stir people’s emotions about the canyon. In 1963 the Sierra
Club published Porter's images in the large-format book The Place
No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado.
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